# research articles in topology/geometry [closed]

There is a saying "Do you read the masters?"

I want to read some basic papers in Topology/geometry...

I can not clearly state what is basic as of now...

My back ground includes course in

• Category theory, Some group Cohomology
• Algebraic topology
• Differential forms, deRham cohomology
• Representation theory of finite groups
• Lie groups and Lie algebras

I am interested to learn some $K$ theory.

The reason I am interested is I did a course in representation theory(from Serre's Book).. In that there is a discussion about Grothendick group ... We denote it by $K(\mathcal{F})$.. Though i do not understand it it was fascinating... Then I saw that this $K$ is the $K$ in $K$- theory...

I was reading some smooth manifolds and came across with what is called tangent bundle, vector bundle, fibre bundle.. Then realized this fibre bundle has some thing to do with fibrations and vector bundles are related to $K$- theory...

So, all that i want to ask is a suggestion about the papers that i can read with this background.

PS : I believe this can be made to community wiki at least. This is a question that asks to refer some books and i have given details.

## closed as primarily opinion-based by YCor, Alex Degtyarev, Fernando Muro, András Bátkai, Daniel MoskovichFeb 7 '16 at 21:32

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• Three papers which are often considered as classics: maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/papers/thomcob.pdf (Thom: Quelques proprietes globales des varietes differentiables) and link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02564562 (Serre: Cohomologie modulo 2 des complexes d'Eilenberg-MacLane) and jstor.org/stable/1969789 (Serre: Groupes d'homotopie et classes des groupes abeliens) – ThiKu Feb 8 '16 at 12:24
• @ThiKu : Thanks for your suggestion.. I can read only english. Please see if you suggest some thing in that lines and i have told you my background.. – user86358 Feb 8 '16 at 17:34

It is worth noting that in $K$-theory one can read `the masters' without that necessarily meaning reading research papers. Specifically, if you are interested in topological $K$-theory, then Atiyah's book is still a very good introduction. Similarly, Milnor's book is an excellent introduction to the lower algebraic $K$-groups.