Four-manifolds; Connections; The Fourier transform and ADHM construction; Yang-Mills moduli spaces; Topology and connections; Stable holomorphic bundles over Kähler surfaces; Excision and gluing; Non-existence results; Invariants of smooth four-manifolds; The differential topology of algebraic surfaces; Appendices; References and Index.
Professor S. K. Donaldson, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, 24-29 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LB. Professor P. B. Kronheimer, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2901, USA. Professor Donaldson won the Fields Medal for his work in the area of four-manifolds.
`... authoritative and comprehensive... it must be regarded as compulsory reading for any young researcher approaching this difficult but fascinating area.' Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
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