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Book Information:
Author:
Jörg Schürmann
Title:
Topology of singular spaces and constructible sheaves
Additional book information:
Birkhäuser-Verlag,
Basel,
2003,
x+452 pp.,
ISBN 3-7643-2189-X,
US$139.00$
Aldo Andreotti and Theodore Frankel, The Lefschetz theorem on hyperplane sections, Ann. of Math. (2) 69 (1959), 713–717. MR 177422, DOI 10.2307/1970034
Raoul Bott, On a theorem of Lefschetz, Michigan Math. J. 6 (1959), 211–216. MR 215323
Mark Goresky and Robert MacPherson, Stratified Morse theory, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete (3) [Results in Mathematics and Related Areas (3)], vol. 14, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988. MR 932724, DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-71714-7
Masaki Kashiwara and Pierre Schapira, Sheaves on manifolds, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften [Fundamental Principles of Mathematical Sciences], vol. 292, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1990. With a chapter in French by Christian Houzel. MR 1074006, DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-02661-8
René Thom, Problèmes rencontrés dans mon parcours mathématique: un bilan, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 70 (1989), 199–214 (1990) (French). MR 1067383
6. -, 
uvres complètes, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, 2002, on a CD-Rom.
- 1.
- A. Andreotti and T. Frankel, The Lefschetz theorem on hyperplane sections, Ann. of Math. (2) 69 (1959), 713-717. MR 0177422 (31:1685)
- 2.
- R. Bott, On a theorem of Lefschetz, Michigan Math. J. 6 (1959), 211-216. MR 0215323 (35:6164)
- 3.
- M. Goresky and R. D. MacPherson, Stratified Morse Theory, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Folge 3 Band 14, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1988. MR 0932724 (90d:57039)
- 4.
- M. Kashiwara and P. Schapira, Sheaves on Manifolds, Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol. 292, Springer-Verlag, 1990. MR 1074006 (92a:58132)
- 5.
- R. Thom, Problèmes rencontrés dans mon parcours mathématique: un bilan, Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. (1989), 199-214; see also [6]. MR 1067383 (92a:58001)
- 6.
- -, uvres complètes, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, 2002, on a CD-Rom.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Claude Sabbah
Affiliation:
Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, École Polytechnique
Email:
sabbah@math.polytechnique.fr
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
43 (2006), 575-578
Published electronically:
May 23, 2006
Review copyright:
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American Mathematical Society
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