Raoul Bott: Collected Papers Volume 5

This book is the fifth and final volume of Raoul Bott’s Collected Papers. It collects all of Bott’s published articles since 1991 as well as some articles published earlier but missing in the earlier volumes. The volume also contains interviews with Raoul Bott, several of his previously unpublished...

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Other Authors: Tu, Loring W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Birkhäuser 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Contemporary Mathematicians
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 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