The Steenrod Algebra and Its Applications

Inhalt
The work of Norman E. Steenrod in algebraic topology: An appreciation.- On nonsingular bilinear maps.- Homotopy is not concrete.- The K theory of stiefel manifolds.- On the classification of torsion-free H-spaces of rank 2.- Compact perturbations and degree theory.- A fixed theorem for finite diffeomorphism groups generated by reflections.- Spherical fibrations.- On the decomposability of fibre spaces.- The milgram bar construction as a tensor product of functors.- A general algebraic approach to steenrod operations.- Some properties of the loop homology of commutative coalgebras.- Coalgebras over hopf algebras.- Representation theory, surgery and free actions of finite groups on varieties and homotopy spheres.- Joint cobordism of immersions.- The thom-massey approach to embeddings.- Cohomology operations and homotopy commutative H-spaces.