DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY

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1 DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY VICTOR GUILLEMIN ALAN POLLACK AMS CHELSEA PUBLISHING American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island

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4 DIFFERENTIAL TOPOLOGY VICTOR GUILLEMIN ALAN POLLACK AMS CHELSEA PUBLISHING American Mathematical Society Providence, Rhode Island AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL ΑΓΕΩΜΕ ΤΡΗΤΟΣ ΜΗ ΕΙΣΙΤΩ SOCIETY FOUNDED 1888

5 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 53Cxx, 57Rxx, 58Axx. For additional information and updates on this book, visit Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guillemin, Victor, 1937 Differential topology / Victor Guillemin, Alan Pollack. p. cm. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN (alk. paper) 1. Differential topology. I. Pollack, Alan, 1946 II. Title. QA613.6.G dc Copying and reprinting. Individual readers of this publication, and nonprofit libraries acting for them, are permitted to make fair use of the material, such as to copy a chapter for use in teaching or research. Permission is granted to quote brief passages from this publication in reviews, provided the customary acknowledgment of the source is given. Republication, systematic copying, or multiple reproduction of any material in this publication is permitted only under license from the American Mathematical Society. Requests for such permission should be addressed to the Acquisitions Department, American Mathematical Society, 201 Charles Street, Providence, Rhode Island USA. Requests can also be made by to reprint-permission@ams.org. c 1974 held by the American Mathematical Society. All rights reserved. Reprinted by the American Mathematical Society, 2010, Printed in the United States of America. The paper used in this book is acid-free and falls within the guidelines established to ensure permanence and durability. Visit the AMS home page at

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10 Preface to the AMS Chelsea Edition We are deeply grateful tothe AMS for reissuing Differential Topology as part of its AMS Chelsea Book Series. Our elementary introduction to topology via transversality techniques has managed to stay in print for most of the thirtysix years since its original appearance, and we would like to thank Edward Dunne and his colleagues in Providence for ensuring its continuing availability (knock on wood) for the next thirty-six years. The techniques it highlights have, in some sense, a very 1970 s flavor. The quixotic hopes of that decade, that singularity theory and catastrophe theory (of whose catastrophic demise the less said the better) would have a revolutionary impact on physics, chemistry, biology, economics, game theory, and investment strategies in the stock market, have proved largely unfounded. However, we have been pleased to find that our students today are, just as were the students of three decades ago, happy with the visceral, down-to-earth approach to topology espoused by books like ours and Milnor s wonderful Topology from a Differential Viewpoint. We hope (again knock on wood) that whatever the fashions in mathematics of the next thirty-six years, this will continue to be the case. Victor Guillemin Alan Pollack ix

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