📖 Book Overview: As an essential volume in the prestigious Classics in Mathematics series, this textbook remains one of the most fundamental, comprehensive, and widely cited resources on the subject. This trade paperback provides a rigorous, textbook introduction to K-theory, seamlessly bridging abstract algebra and algebraic topology. Written by world-renowned mathematician Max Karoubi, the book is meticulously structured to guide researchers, graduate students, and advanced math academics through vector bundles, the Chern character, and the intricate proof of the Bott periodicity theorem. Spanning 316 foundational pages, this 2008 edition is a vital piece of core curriculum reading for anyone specializing in higher geometry or modern abstract algebra.

🔍 Condition: Good Plus (Good+). Structurally excellent with a tight binding and entirely clean text area. Absolutely no highlighting, underlining, or writing inside. Features a cosmetic flaw: a small coffee drip stain along the outer fore-edge of the closed pages. This is purely a surface-level cosmetic blemish and does not bleed deeply into, affect, or obscure the text block in any way. A highly functional, clean reading copy

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📖 Contents:
Vector Bundles
First Notions of K-Theory
Bott Periodicity
Computation of Some K-Groups
Some Applications of K-Theory

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