Lectures on the h-Cobordism Theorem

Princeton Legacy Library

by John Milnor

These lectures provide students and specialists with preliminary and valuable information from university courses and seminars in mathematics. This set gives new proof of the h-cobordism theorem that is different from the original proof presented by S. Smale.

Originally published in 1965.

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Genres: Mathematics

122 pages, Paperback

First published December 8, 2015

Reviews

[Andrew]

Milnor is an excellent mathematical writer, and the high-level outline of the proof is well-told, and the result is of the great results of topology. However, the details feel that they have not fully settled and could have a more straightforward and conceptually enlightening treatment.

[Saman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure what we should expect of a math book, It was a very clear and nice proof on h-Cobordism theorem, and generalized Poincare conjecture, one of the most important facts in Topology , but it was a very bad book from educational point of view. Maybe we shouldn't call it a book at all, a proof with some of it's prerequisites.