Commentary on “Lectures on Morse theory, old and new”

DOI10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01349-0zbMath1277.57001MaRDI QIDQ3094413

Daniel S. Freed

Publication date: 25 October 2011

Published in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

reprint of classics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

58E05: Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces

57R57: Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds

57R56: Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology)

57R58: Floer homology

57R70: Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology

57-03: History of manifolds and cell complexes

58-03: History of global analysis

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