{"product_id":"9783540633891","title":"Springer Monographs in Mathematics: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpringer Monographs in Mathematics: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWinkelnkemper, E.; Ranicki, Andrew\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eHigh-dimensional knot theory is the study of the embeddings of n-dimensional manifolds in (n+2)-dimensional manifolds, generalizing the traditional study of knots in the case n=1. The main theme is the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory. Many results in the research literature are thus brought into a single framework, and new results are obtained. The treatment is particularly effective in dealing with open books, which are manifolds with codimension 2 submanifolds such that the complement fibres over a circle. The book concludes with an appendix by E. Winkelnkemper on the history of open books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 1998-08-06\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783540633891\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-662-12011-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 646\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Berlin Heidelberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44521573318796,"sku":"9783540633891","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783540633891.jpg?v=1775705793","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783540633891","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}