The publication of this book in 1970 marked the culmination of a period in the history of the topology of manifolds. This edition, based on the original text, is supplemented by notes on subsequent developments and updated references and commentaries.
Lecture notes from the conference held Aug. 1995 in Boulder, Colo.
A smooth submanifold whose inclusion has the same connectivity properties as the inclusion of a complex hypersurface is called taut. The diffeomorphism types of taut submanifolds are quite limited and a partial classification is obtained. The taut submanifolds are constructed us…
