High-dimensional Knot Theory: Algebraic Surgery in Codimension 2 (Springer Monographs in Mathematics) (v. 2)

Bringing together many results previously scattered throughout the research literature into a single framework, this work concentrates on the application of the author's algebraic theory of surgery to provide a unified treatment of the invariants of codimension 2 embeddings, generalizing the Alexander polynomials and Seifert forms of classical knot theory.