Surgery of Non-Simply-Connected Manifolds

Groups of Homotopy Spheres: I

Michel Kervaire, John Milnor · Annals of Mathematics · 1963 · 961 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Cell Junctions +8

Combinatorial homotopy. I

J. H. C. Whitehead · Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society · 1949 · 848 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Combinatorics +9

Finiteness Conditions for CW-Complexes

C. T. C. Wall · Annals of Mathematics · 1965 · 548 citations

Natural Sciences, Constitutional Law, Topology +8

Immersions of manifolds

Morris W. Hirsch · Transactions of the American Mathematical Society · 1959 · 501 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Geometry +5

Modifications and Cobounding Manifolds

Andrew H. Wallace · Canadian Journal of Mathematics · 1960 · 343 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Computational Geometry +6