Subject: Re: question for list From: jds@sas.upenn.edu Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:28:13 -0500 There's an excelelnt presentationon film which may have been transcribed to video I think th title is Regular Homotopies in the Plane or something liek that jim Quoting Don Davis : >> From: Yuli Rudyak >> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:25:42 -0500 (EST) >> >> I have a question for the list. >> >> Can somebody tell me where can I find a simple proof of the Whitney >> Theorem on >> immersions of the circle into the plane (the class of regular homotopy is >> completely determined by the winding number). I need some text book or >> survey >> paper, easy enough for graduate students. >> >> Yuli Subject: Re: question for list From: Kevin Iga Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:08:20 PST A good introduction to the whole subject is Eliashberg and Mishachev, "Introduction to the h principle" which puts it in context to a wide range of similar problems, namely problems where solution to a problem reduces to the linearized problem on the tangent space. Kevin Iga kiga@pepvax.pepperdine.edu