Invitations to geometry and topology/
edited by Martin R. Bridson and Simon M. Salamon.
- Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- 327 p.: ill.; 25 cm.
- Oxford graduate texts in mathematics; 7 Oxford science publications .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Topologist""s view of perfect and acyclic groups -- Geometry of the word problem -- Fuller index -- Borel-Weil theorem for complex projective space -- Morse theory in the 1900s -- Dirac operator -- Hermitian geometry -- Indices of vector fields and Chern classics for singular varieties -- Appendix: Research publications of B.F. Ste .