Differential Topology

Introduction
Cover
Glossary of symbols
Title page
Introduction
Chapter 1: Manifolds and Maps
0. Submanifolds of R^{n+k}
1. DifferentiaI Structures
2. Differentiable Maps and the Tangent Bundle
3. Embeddings and Immersions
4. Manifolds with Boundary
5. A Convention
Chapter 2: Function Spaces
1. The Weak and Strong Topologies on C^r(M,N)
2. Approximations
3. Approximations on ∂-Manifolds and Manifold Pairs
4. Jets and the Baire Property
5. Analytic Approximations
Chapter 3: Transversality
1. The Morse-Sard Theorem
2. Transversality
Chapter 4: Vector Bundles and Tubular Neighborhoods
1. Vector Bundles
2. Constructions with Vector Bundles
3. The Classification of Vector Bundles
4. Oriented Vector Bundles
5. Tubular Neighborhoods
6. Collars and Tubular Neighborhoods of Neat Submanifolds
7. Analytic DifferentiaI Structures
Chapter 5: Degrees, Intersection Numbers, and the Euler Characteristic
1. Degrees of Maps
2. Intersection Numbers and the Euler Characteristic
3. Historical Remarks
Chapter 6 : Morse Theory
1. Morse Functions
2. DifferentiaI Equations and Regular Level Surfaces
3. Passing Critical Levels and Attaching Cells
4. CW-Complexes
Chapter 7: Cobordism
1. Cobordism and Transversality
2. The Thom Homomorphism
Chapter 8: Isotopy
1. Extending Isotopies
2. Gluing Manifolds Together
3. Isotopies of Disks
Chapter 9: Surfaces
1. Models of Surfaces
2. Characterization of the Disk
3. The Classification of Compact Surfaces
Bibliography
Appendix
Index