Bøger af Marc Levine

This book is based on lectures given at a summer school on motivic homotopy theory at the Sophus Lie Centre in Nordfjordeid, Norway, in August 2002. Vladimir Voevodsky is one of the founders of the theory and received the Fields medal for his work, and the other authors have all done important work in the subject.

An examination of the nature of the linguistic transformation of Montreal and the role of public policy in promoting it. After tracing the politicization of the language question in the 1960s and 1970s, this work analyzes the impact of the three controversial language laws penacted by the Quebec provincial government between 1969 and 1977.

Following Quillen's approach to complex cobordism, the authors introduce the notion of oriented cohomology theory on the category of smooth varieties over a fixed field. They prove the existence of a universal such theory (in characteristic 0) called Algebraic Cobordism. The book also contains some examples of computations and applications.