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Leon Claire Metz

Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1980

excellent source of life in Texas after the Civil War
Leon Metz creates a very fine life portrait of John Selman. Information about him seems scarce until Elpaso Texas, but Metz provides valuable information about life in the lawless days of Texas, thourgh exhaustive research. Metz's book allows the reader to create his own image and opinion of Selman. I thought the book read quite quickly, very informative, and entertaining. Anyone ...

John Selman, Texas gunfighter
Leon Claire Metz

New York, Hastings House, 1966

Casson's Invariant for Oriented Homology Three-Spheres: An Exposition. (MN-36) (Mathematical Notes)
Selman Akbulut

Princeton University Press, 1989

In the spring of 1985, A. Casson announced an interesting invariant of homology 3-spheres via constructions on representation spaces. This invariant generalizes the Rohlin invariant and gives surprising corollaries in low-dimensional topology. In the fall of that same year, Selman Akbulut and John McCarthy held a seminar on this invariant. These notes grew out of that seminar. The authors have tried to remain close to Casson's original outline ...