Differentiable manifolds and quadratic forms

Hirzebruch,F. Neumann,W.D. Koh,S.S.9780824713096, 0824713095, 0824713184

Table of contents :
Contents……Page 4
1. Quadratic forms……Page 5
2. The Grothendieck ring……Page 21
3. Certain arithmetical properties of quadratic forms……Page 29
4. Integral unimodular quadratic forms……Page 36
5. Quadratic forms over Z_p; the genus of integral forms……Page 40
6. The quadratic form of a 4k-dimensional manifold……Page 46
7. An application of Rohlin’s theorem, mu-invariants……Page 50
8. Plumbing……Page 60
9. Complex manifolds of complex dimension 2……Page 79
10. A theorem of Kervaire and Milnor……Page 91
References……Page 96
Appendix I……Page 98
References……Page 109
Appendix II. Grothendieck and Witt rings……Page 112
References……Page 118
Author index……Page 121
Subject index……Page 123