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In the 19 years which passed since the first edition was published, several important developments have taken place in the theory of surfaces. The most sensatio

In 1961 Smale established the generalized Poincare Conjecture in dimensions greater than or equal to 5 [129] and proceeded to prove the h-cobordism theorem [130

This welcome boon for students of algebraic topology cuts a much-needed central path between other texts whose treatment of the classification theorem for compa