This book presents the topology of smooth 4-manifolds in an intuitive self-contained way, developed over a number of years by Professor Akbulut. The text is aimed at graduate students and focuses on t
In the Fall of 1975 we started a joint project with the ultimate goal of topo- logically classifying real algebraic sets. This has been a long happy collaboration (c.f., [K2)). In 1985 while visiting
