Table of Contents

Introduction I. Differentiable Structures II. Immersions, Imbeddings, Submanifolds III. Normal Bundle, Tubular Neighborhoods IV. Transversality V. Foliations VI. Operations on Manifolds VII. Handle Presentation Theorem VIII. The h-Cobordism Theorem IX. Framed Manifolds X. Surgery Appendix I: Implicit Function Theorem; A Lemma of M. Morse; Brown-Sard Theorem; Orthonormalization; Homotopy Groups of SO(k) Appendix II Bibliography Index