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Biography of Robert M. Switzer

Robert M. Switzer was born in Tennessee (USA) in 1940.

After majoring in mathematics at Harvard College, he completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1965. He spent 5 years as lecturer at the University of Manchester, England, and then moved to Goettingen, Germany, where he has been Professor of Mathematics since 1973. In the early 1980s his research concentrated on obstruction theory in connection with holomorphic bundles on projective spaces.

In 1984 he switched his attention to Computer Science and has been teaching and working in that field ever since.

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o. Some Facts from General Topology 1. Categories, Functors and Natural Transformations 2. Homotopy Sets and Groups 3. Properties of the Homotopy Groups 4. Fibrations 5. CW-Complexes 6. Homotopy Properties of CW-Complexes 7. Homology and Cohomology Theories 8. Spectra 9. Representation Theorems 10. Ordinary Homology Theory 11. Vector Bundles and K-Theory 12. Manifolds and Bordism 13. Products 14. Orientation and Duality 15. Spectral Swquences 16. Characteristic Classes 17. Cohomology Operations and Homology Cooperations 18. The Steenrod Algebra and its Dual 19. The Adams Spectral Sequence and the e-Invariant 20. Calculation of the Corbordism Groups Bibliography Subject Index