Introductory Lectures on Equivariant Cohomology: (AMS-204)
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Introductory Lectures on Equivariant Cohomology: (AMS-204)
By (Author) Loring W. Tu
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
12th May 2020
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Geometry
Topology
Algebra
514.23
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Hardback
315
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
This book gives a clear introductory account of equivariant cohomology, a central topic in algebraic topology. Equivariant cohomology is concerned with the algebraic topology of spaces with a group action, or in other words, with symmetries of spaces. First defined in the 1950s, it has been introduced into K-theory and algebraic geometry, but it is
Reviews
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Very well-written, self contained and gives a clear introductory account of equivariant cohomology, a central topic in algebraic topology.
"---Marek Golasiski, Zentralblatt MATHAuthor Bio
Loring W. Tu is professor of mathematics at Tufts University. He is the author of An Introduction to Manifolds and Differential Geometry, and the coauthor (with Raoul Bott) of Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology.
