Subject: Nonabelian algebraic topology Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:02:58 +0100 From: Ronnie Brown To: Don Davis Algebraic topology discussion list This advertises Part I of a three part book with the above title. We are putting Part I (with overall TOC) on the web to awake interest and in the hope of getting comments and suggestions. Details are on http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/nonab-a-t.html Special interest for this list should be the use of higher categorical structures to develop higher dimensional nonabelian tools (particularly crossed modules and crossed complexes) for certain local-to-global problems, including the computation of algebraic models of homotopy types (only 2-types in Part I). Ronnie Brown and Rafael Sivera Villenueva -- Professor Emeritus R. Brown, Department of Mathematics, University of Wales, Bangor Dean St., Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 1UT, United Kingdom Tel. direct:+44 1248 382474|office: 382681 fax: +44 1248 361429 World Wide Web: home page: http://www.bangor.ac.uk/~mas010/ (Links to survey articles: Higher dimensional group theory Groupoids and crossed objects in algebraic topology) Centre for the Popularisation of Mathematics: http://www.cpm.informatics.bangor.ac.uk/ (reorganised site with new sculpture animations)