Milnor Top Diff VPT
Milnor Top Diff VPT
FROM THE
DIFFERENTIABLE
VIEWPOINT
By John W. Milnor
Princeton University
Based on notes by
David W. Weaver
Library of Congress
Catalog Card ]'\umber: 65-26874
Printed in the
United States of America
To Heinz Hopf
PREFACE
VII
CONTENTS
Preface vii
1. Smooth manifolds and smooth maps 1
Tangent spaces and derivatives 2
Regular values 7
The fundamental theorem of algebra 8
2. The theorem of Sard and Brown 10
Manifolds with boundary 12
The Brouwer fixed point theorem 13
3. Proof of Sard's theorem 16
4. The degree modulo 2 of a mapping 20
Smooth homotopy and smooth isotopy 20