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Loring W. Tu (Hrsg.) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers Volume 5 Reihe: Contemporary Mathematicians

Fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott's completed works Offers personal insights on the life and work of one of the foremost mathematicians of the twentieth century Features topics of current interest, such as stable vector bundles, knot and manifold invariants, equivariant cohomology, and loop spaces This book is the fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott’s Collected Papers. It collects all of Bott’s published articles since 1991 as well as some articles published earlier but missing in the earlier volumes. The volume also contains interviews with Raoul Bott, several of his previously unpublished speeches, commentaries by his collaborators such as Alberto Cattaneo and Jonathan Weitsman on their joint articles with Bott, Michael Atiyah’s obituary of Raoul Bott, 1st ed. 2017, XIX, 676 p. 199 illus., 53 Loring Tu’s authorized biography of Raoul Bott, and reminiscences of Raoul Bott by his friends, illus. in color. students, colleagues, and collaborators, among them Stephen Smale, David Mumford, Arthur Jaffe, Shing-Tung Yau, and Loring Tu. The mathematical articles, many inspired by physics, Gedrucktes Buch encompass stable vector bundles, knot and manifold invariants, equivariant cohomology, and Hardcover loop spaces. The nonmathematical contributions give a sense of Bott’s approach to 139,99 € | £119.99 | $169.99 mathematics, style, personality, zest for life, and humanity.In one of the articles, from the [1]149,79 € (D) | 153,99 € (A) | CHF vantage point of his later years, Raoul Bott gives a tour-de-force historical account of one of 165,50 his greatest achievements, the Bott periodicity theorem.A large number of the articles originally appeared in hard-to-find conference proceedings or journals. This volume makes them all Softcover easily accessible. It also features a collection of photographs giving a panoramic view of Raoul 139,99 € | £119.99 | $169.99 Bott's life and his interaction with other mathematicians. [1]149,79 € (D) | 153,99 € (A) | CHF 165,50 eBook 117,69 € | £95.50 | $129.00 [2]117,69 € (D) | 117,69 € (A) | CHF 132,00 Erhältlich bei Ihrer Bibliothek oder springer.com/shop MyCopy [3] Printed eBook for just € | $ 24.99 springer.com/mycopy

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