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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Loring W. TuPublisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG Imprint: Birkhauser Verlag AG Edition: 1st ed. 2017 Weight: 1.989kg ISBN: 9783319517797ISBN 10: 3319517791 Pages: 676 Publication Date: 10 April 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface.- Photographs.- Curriculum Vitae.- Bibliography of Raoul Bott.- Part I. Biographies and Commentaries: M. F. Atiyah, R. H. Bott, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows.- L. W. Tu, The life and works of Raoul Bott.- L. W. Tu, coordinating editor, Remembering Raoul Bott (1923–2005), with contributions from R. Gurdian, S. Smale, D. Mumford, A. Jaffe, S.-T. Yau, and L. W. Tu.- L. Jeffrey, Stable bundles.- L. Jeffrey, E. Verlinde’s formula.- A. Szenes, Memories of Raoul Bott.- D. Bar-Natan, On Raoul Bott’s “On invariants of manifolds”.- I. Voli´c, Configuration space integrals: bridging physics, geometry, and topology of knots and links.- A. Cattaneo, Commentary on joint papers “Integral invariants of 3-manifolds, I, II”.- L. W. Tu, Equivariant characteristic classes.- L. W. Tu, On the genesis of the Woods Hole fixed point formula.- J. Weitsman, Commentary on joint paper “Surjectivity for Hamiltonian loop group spaces”.- M. F. Atiyah, Commentary on “Report on the Woods Hole fixed point seminar”.- Part II. Papers of Raoul Bott Since 1991.- Part III. Earlier Articles Not Included in Prior Volumes of Collected Papers.- Part IV. Speeches.ReviewsAuthor Information"Loring W. Tu was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and grew up in Taiwan, Canada, and the United States. He attended McGill University and Princeton University as an undergraduate, and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University under the supervision of Phillip A. Griths. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at Johns Hopkins University, and is currently Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University in Massachusetts.An algebraic geometer by training, he has done research at the interface of algebraic geometry, topology, and differential geometry, including Hodge theory, degeneracy loci, moduli spaces of vector bundles, and equivariant cohomology. He is the coauthor with Raoul Bott of Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology and the author of ""An Introduction to Manifolds and Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature, and Characteristic Classes""." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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