Low dimensional topology : [proceedings contains the notes of five lecture series ; The summer school was held in Budapest, Hungary, 03-14.08.1998

Introduction -- Notes On Nonpositively Curved Polyhedra / M. Davis, G. Moussong -- Smooth Invariants Of 4-manifolds / J.w. Morgan -- Notes On Geometry And 3-manifolds / W.d. Neumann -- Normal Surface Singularities / A. Nemethi -- Some Topological Invariants Of Isolated Hypersurface Singularities / A. Nemethi. Edited By Károly Böröczky, Jr., Walter Neumann, András Stipsicz. Proceedings Of Five Lecture Series Held During The Summer School On Low Dimensional Topology, August 3-14, 1998 In Budapest, Hungary, And At The Ems Summer Schools No. 1, Algebraic Geometry, In Eger, Hungary In 1996. Includes Bibliographical References.