``An introduction to algebraic K-theory''


A fuller table of contents is available here.

  • Chapter I: Projective Modules and Vector Bundles (52pp.)
    Last major update March 1997 (section 4). Minor update July 2000, Sept. 2004.

  • Chapter II: The Grothendieck group K_0 (99pp.)
    Last major updates Dec. 2003 (sec.6, 7, 9), July 2004 (sec.2, 7, App.). Minor update Sept. 2004

  • Chapter III: K_1 and K_2 of a ring (69 pp.) Last major update August 2004 (sections 1-4).
    Earlier updates August 1997, July 2000.

  • Chapter IV: Definitions of higher K-theory (49pp.) Major update September 2004 (Products and sections 8-9 added)
    Earlier updates December 1999, August 2004 (Sec.3)

    Watch it grow like Topsy!


    I'll be tired by this point, and might quit here.

    Suggestions are welcome!

    Thanks for corrections go to:

    R.Thomason, M.Lorenz, J.Csirik, M.Paluch, T.Geisser, Paul Smith, P.A.Ostvaer, D.Grayson, I.Leary, A.Heider, P.Polo, J.Hornbostel, B.Calmes

    Errata for Jon Rosenberg's 1994 book on K-theory


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    Topsy is a character in Harriet B. Stowe's 1852 book Uncle Tom's Cabin who claimed to have never been born: ``Never was born... I 'spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.'' (sic)