Edinburgh Surgery Theory Study Group

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Websites

• Manifold Atlas Project - Regensburg Surgery Seminar 2012
• Manifold Atlas Project - Oberwolfach Surgery Seminar 2012
• Carmen Rovi's Videos - Regensburg and elsewhere

Books

• Algebraic and Geometric Surgery
  Andrew Ranicki
• Surgery on Compact Manifolds
  C.T.C. Wall
• Surgery on Simply Connected Manifolds
  William Browder
• Topology, I
  S. P. Novikov
• A Basic Introduction to Surgery Theory
  Wolfgang Lück
• High Dimensional Knot Theory - Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2
  Andrew Ranicki

Original Papers

• A Procedure for Killing Homotopy Groups of Differentiable Manifolds
  John Milnor
• Groups of Homotopy Spheres
  J. Milnor, M. Kervaire
• Lectures on the h-cobordism Theorem
  John Milnor

Exercises

• Exercises on the Manifold Atlas Project
  Mixed collection of exercises from various authors (including us!) with some solutions.

A mixed (and still rough) collection of exercises on surgery basics. We have tried to quote sources where the exercises are not original.

1. Exercise Sheet 1 (Lecture 1)
2. Exercise Sheet 2 (Lecture 2)
3. Exercise Sheet 3 (Lecture 3)