Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Surgery theory today - what it is and where it's going 1
5. Reflections on C. T. C. Wall's work on cobordism 49
6. A survey of Wall's finiteness obstruction 63
7. An introduction to algebraic surgery 81
8. Automorphisms of manifolds 165
9. Spaces of smooth embeddings, disjunction and surgery 221
10. Surgery theoretic methods in group actions 285
11. Surgery and stratified spaces 319
12. Metrics of positive scalar curvature and connections with surgery 353
13. A survey of 4-manifolds through the eyes of surgery 387
14. Problems in 4-dimensional topology 423