Monthly Archives: January 2014

Torus trickery 201, part 2

So how are appropriate versions of Facts 1 and 2 (from the previous post) to be proved, and what has this all got to do with the torus? The Euclidean space \({\mathbb R}^2\) that appears is a little piece of … Continue reading

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Torus trickery 201

One of the things I really want to do with the Surgery for Amateurs project is to make a reasonably plausible presentation of surgery theory for topological manifolds, as well as for smooth and/or PL.  But this requires one to … Continue reading

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