This text, developed from a first-year graduate course in algebraic topology, is an informal introduction to some of the main ideas of contemporary homotopy and cohomology theory. The materials are structured around four core areas- de Rham theory, the Cech-de Rham complex, spectral sequences, and characteristic classes-and include some ...
The collected papers of Raoul Bott are contained in four volumes, with each volume covering a different subject and representing approximately a decade of Bott's work. This volume covers differential operators and represents the 1960s. Other volumes are: Volume One - "Topology and Lie Groups" (1950s); Volume Three - "Foliations" (1970s); and ...
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