Dennis Barden
Encyclopedia
Dennis Barden is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge
, who proved the s-cobordism theorem and classified the simply connected compact 5-manifold
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University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, who proved the s-cobordism theorem and classified the simply connected compact 5-manifold
5-manifold
In mathematics, a 5-manifold is a 5-dimensional topological manifold, possibly with a piecewise linear or smooth structure.Non-simply connected 5-manifolds are impossible to classify, as this is harder than solving the word problem for groups. Simply connected compact 5-manifolds were first...
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Publications
- Dennis Barden, Charles B. Thomas An Introduction to Differential Manifolds ISBN 1-86094-355-1
- D. Barden, Simply Connected Five-Manifolds The Annals of Mathematics > 2nd Ser., Vol. 82, No. 3 (Nov., 1965), pp. 365–385
External links
- Dennis Barden at Cambridge.