A User's Guide to Spectral Sequences [Paperback]

This book describes some of the most important examples of spectral sequences and some of their most spectacular applications.Spectral sequences are among the most elegant, most powerful, and most complicated methods of computation in mathematics. This book describes some of the most important examples of spectral sequences and some of their most spectacular applications. It introduces the algebraic foundations in an accessible manner, starting from informal calculations, to give the novice a familiarity with the range of applications possible with spectral sequences. This second edition contains a new chapter on the Bockstein spectral sequence and an updated treatment of other topological sequences.This is an excellent reference for students and researchers in geometry, topology, and algebra.Spectral sequences are among the most elegant, most powerful, and most complicated methods of computation in mathematics. This book describes some of the most important examples of spectral sequences and some of their most spectacular applications. It introduces the algebraic foundations in an accessible manner, starting from informal calculations, to give the novice a familiarity with the range of applications possible with spectral sequences. This second edition contains a new chapter on the Bockstein spectral sequence and an updated treatment of other topological sequences.This is an excellent reference for students and researchers in geometry, topology, and algebra.Spectral sequences are among the most elegant and powerful methods of computation in mathematics. This book describes some of the most important examples of spectral sequences and some of their most spectacular applications. The first part treats the algebraic foundations for this sort of homological algebra, starting from informal calculations. The heart of the text is an exposition of the classical examples from homotopy theory, with chapters on the Leray-Serre spectral sequence, the Eilenberg-Moore spel“+