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Smooth 4-manifolds

Cambridge University, 2006

After going through some basics, this course focused on Donaldson's revolutionary proof of the diagonalization theorem, via a 5-dimensional moduli space of instantons. Old-fashioned? Maybe. But it's still one of the most startling and beautiful arguments in modern mathematics.

A detailed set of notes can be found here.