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Surgery theory, the basis for the classification theory of manifolds, is now about forty years old. There have been some extraordinary accomplishments in that time, which have led to enormously varied interactions with algebra, analysis, and geometry. Workers in many of these areas have often lamented the lack of a single source that surveys surgery theory and its applications. Indeed, no one person could write such a survey. The sixtieth birthday of C. T. C. Wall, one of the leaders of the founding generation of surgery theory, provided an opportunity to rectify the situation and produce a comprehensive book on the subject. Experts have written state-of-the-art reports that will be of broad interest to all those interested in topology, not only graduate students and mathematicians, but mathematical physicists as well. Contributors include J. Milnor, S. Novikov, W. Browder, T. Lance, E. Brown, M. Kreck, J. Klein, M. Davis, J. Davis, I. Hambleton, L. Taylor, C. Stark, E. Pedersen, W. Mio, J. Levine, K. Orr, J. Roe, J. Milgram, and C. Thomas.

Chirurgie (Topologie) --- Heelkunde (Topologie) --- Surgery (Topology) --- Differential topology --- Homotopy equivalences --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Topology --- Algebraic topology (object). --- Algebraic topology. --- Ambient isotopy. --- Assembly map. --- Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. --- Atiyah–Singer index theorem. --- Automorphism. --- Banach algebra. --- Borsuk–Ulam theorem. --- C*-algebra. --- CW complex. --- Calculation. --- Category of manifolds. --- Characterization (mathematics). --- Chern class. --- Cobordism. --- Codimension. --- Cohomology. --- Compactification (mathematics). --- Conjecture. --- Contact geometry. --- Degeneracy (mathematics). --- Diagram (category theory). --- Diffeomorphism. --- Differentiable manifold. --- Differential geometry. --- Dirac operator. --- Disk (mathematics). --- Donaldson theory. --- Duality (mathematics). --- Embedding. --- Epimorphism. --- Excision theorem. --- Exponential map (Riemannian geometry). --- Fiber bundle. --- Fibration. --- Fundamental group. --- Group action. --- Group homomorphism. --- H-cobordism. --- Handle decomposition. --- Handlebody. --- Homeomorphism group. --- Homeomorphism. --- Homology (mathematics). --- Homomorphism. --- Homotopy extension property. --- Homotopy fiber. --- Homotopy group. --- Homotopy. --- Hypersurface. --- Intersection form (4-manifold). --- Intersection homology. --- Isomorphism class. --- K3 surface. --- L-theory. --- Limit (category theory). --- Manifold. --- Mapping cone (homological algebra). --- Mapping cylinder. --- Mostow rigidity theorem. --- Orthonormal basis. --- Parallelizable manifold. --- Poincaré conjecture. --- Product metric. --- Projection (linear algebra). --- Pushout (category theory). --- Quaternionic projective space. --- Quotient space (topology). --- Resolution of singularities. --- Ricci curvature. --- Riemann surface. --- Riemannian geometry. --- Riemannian manifold. --- Ring homomorphism. --- Scalar curvature. --- Semisimple algebra. --- Sheaf (mathematics). --- Sign (mathematics). --- Special case. --- Sub"ient. --- Subgroup. --- Submanifold. --- Support (mathematics). --- Surgery exact sequence. --- Surgery obstruction. --- Surgery theory. --- Symplectic geometry. --- Symplectic vector space. --- Theorem. --- Topological conjugacy. --- Topological manifold. --- Topology. --- Transversality (mathematics). --- Transversality theorem. --- Vector bundle. --- Waldhausen category. --- Whitehead torsion. --- Whitney embedding theorem. --- Yamabe invariant.