Book review of: David D. Bleecker and Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbeck, Index theory with applications to mathematics and physics

Abstract

A review of the book David D. Bleecker and Bernhelm Booss-Bavnbeck, Index theory with applications to mathematics and physics is given.

The content is reviewed in the realm of topics and histtorical development of the subject (theory of indices of elliptic or Fredholm operators).

Keywords

• Index theory
• Atiyah-Singer theorem
• Fredholm operators
• homotopy theory
• Dirac operators
• solitons