This is the first unified treatment in book form of the lower K-groups of Bass and the lower L-groups of the author.

This book is a general introduction to Higher Algebraic K-groups of rings and algebraic varieties, which were first defined by Quillen at the beginning of the 7

These notes are based on the course of lectures I gave at Harvard in the fall of 1964. They constitute a self-contained account of vector bundles and K-theory a

Assuming no previous acquaintance with surgery theory and justifying all the algebraic concepts used by their relevance to topology, Dr Ranicki explains the app

This book provides a very elementary introduction to K-theory for C*-algebras, and is ideal for beginning graduate students.