Lectures on geometry

✍ Scribed by Woodhouse, Nicholas (ed.)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Series: Clay lecture notes series
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of papers based on lectures delivered by distinguished mathematicians at Clay Mathematics Institute events over the past few years. It is intended to be the first in an occasional series of volumes of CMI lectures. Although not explicitly linked, the topics in this inaugural volume have a common flavour and a common appeal to all who are interested in recent developments in geometry. They are intended to be accessible to all who work in this general area, regardless of their own particular research interests.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Preface
Contents
List of Contributors
1 Two Lectures on the Jones Polynomial and Khovanov Homology
Edward Witten
2 Elementary Knot Theory
Marc Lackenby
3 Cube Complexes, Subgroups of Mapping Class Groups and Nilpotent Genus
Martin R. Bridson
4 Polyfolds and Fredholm Theory
Helmut H. W. Hofer
5 Maps, Sheaves and K3 Surfaces
Rahul Pandharipande
Index

✦ Subjects

Geometry;MATHEMATICS;Geometry;General