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Manifold Sins and Wickedness

Posted on July 9, 2013 by John Roe

In the previous post I mentioned the two categories of manifolds with which we’re going to be mostly concerned: smooth manifolds, equipped with an atlas whose transition maps are \(C^\infty\), and topological manifolds (locally Euclidean spaces).  Smooth manifolds are, of … Continue reading →

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What Surgery Is About: Manifolds

Posted on July 6, 2013 by John Roe

Now I’ll begin to post material from the book proper.  Here is the first section of Chapter I.  I’m going to try to post stuff in bite-size pieces like this, rather than a whole chapter at a time. Of course, … Continue reading →

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