Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint

"John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters"

• Preface1Smooth manifolds and smooth maps1Tangent spaces and derivatives2Regular values7The fundamental theorem of algebra82The theorem of Sard and Brown10Manifolds with boundary12The Brouwer fixed point theorem133Proof of Sard's theorem164The degree modulo 2 of a mapping20Smooth homotopy and smooth isotopy205Oriented manifolds26The Brouwer degree276Vector fields and the Euler number327Framed cobordism; the Pontryagin construction42The Hopf theorem508Exercises52AppClassifying 1-manifolds55Bibliography59Index63