Download or read book General Cohomology Theory and K-Theory written by P. J. Hilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-02-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These notes constitute a faithful record of a short course of lectures given in São Paulo, Brazil, in the summer of 1968. The audience was assumed to be familiar with the basic material of homology and homotopy theory, and the object of the course was to explain the methodology of general cohomology theory and to give applications of K-theory to familiar problems such as that of the existence of real division algebras. The audience was not assumed to be sophisticated in homological algebra, so one chapter is devoted to an elementary exposition of exact couples and spectral sequences.