文档介绍：Geometric Topology: Localization, Periodicity and Galois Symmetry
K-Monographs in Mathematics
VOLUME 8
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Geometric Topology:
Localization, Periodicity
and Galois Symmetry
The 1970 MIT Notes
by
Dennis P. Sullivan
Edited by
Andrew Ranicki
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ISBN-10 1-4020-3511-X (HB)
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-3511-1 (HB)
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