[Binghamton Geometry/Topology Seminar] geometry/topology seminar

[Erik Kjær Pedersen]

Fredag 01 oktober 2004 10:45   skrev Ross Geoghegan:
>                    BINGHAMTON GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
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>    Date: Thursday October 7, 2004
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>    Time:  2.50 pm
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>    Place: Library North 2205 followed by coffee/tea in the Anderson
>           Reading Room.
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>    Speaker: Erik Pedersen (Binghamton)
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>    Title: The Hauptvermutung Revisited (first of three talks)
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> http://math.binghamton.edu/MATH/dept/topsem/index.html
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Abstract:

S. Novikov has critisized the state of Manifold Theory "However, a huge 
informational mess was created in the 1970s" ... "In particular, the final 
Kirby-Siebenmann classification of topological multidimensional manifolds 
therefore is not yet proved in the literature".


While I agree with Novikov in most of the things his complaint, I do not think 
the last sentence above is reasonable. The purpose of these lectures is to 
review the history of manifolds, and show how these theorems may be proved 
with more modern techniques.