Cohomology Operations: Lectures by N. E. Steenrod. (AM-50)

by David B.A. Epstein

Overview

A classic treatment of cohomology operations from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies series

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691079240
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/21/1962
Series:	Annals of Mathematics Studies , #50
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• PREFACE, pg. v
• CONTENTS, pg. vii
• CHAPTER I. Axiomatic Development of the Steenrod Algebra, pg. 1
• CHAPTER II. The Dual of the Algebra, pg. 16
• CHARTER III. Embeddings of Spaces in Spheres, pg. 30
• CHAPTER IV. The Cohomology of Classical Groups and Stiefel Manifolds., pg. 37
• CHAPTER V. Equivariant Cohomology, pg. 58
• CHAPTER VI. Axiomatic Development of the Algebra, pg. 76
• CHAPTER VII. Construction of the Reduced Powers, pg. 97
• CHAPTER VIII. Relations of Adem and the Uniqueness Theorem, pg. 115
• APPENDIX: Algebraic Derivations of Certain Properties of the Steenrod Algebra, pg. 133
• Index, pg. 139
• Errata for the Annals Study No. 50, pg. 141