K-Theory and Operator Algebras: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, April 21 - 25, 1975 (Lecture Notes in Mathematics)

A survey of K-theory....Pages 1-9 Characterizing Ext(X)....Pages 10-18 Almost commuting algebras....Pages 19-43 Extensions of C*-algebras and K-homology....Pages 44-52 Bundles and sheaves are equivalent in the category of banach spaces....Pages 53-69 Topological obstructions to perturbations of pairs of operators....Pages 70-77 On algebraic K-theory and the homology of congruence subgroups....Pages 78-87 Configuration spaces....Pages 88-95 Extensions of C*-algebras and the reducing essential matricial spectra of an operator....Pages 96-112 K-homology theory and algebraic K-theory....Pages 113-127 Some remarks on operator theory and index theory....Pages 128-138 Factors of type III....Pages 139-156 Twisted products of Banach algebras and third Čech cohomology....Pages 157-174 H-cobordisms, pseudo-isotopies, and analytic torsion....Pages 175-191