Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter Ⅰ.Projective modules and vector bundles
1.Free modules, GLn, and stably free modules
2.Projective modules
3.The Picard group of a commutative ring
4.Topological vector bundles and Chern classes
5.Algebraic vector bundles
Chapter Ⅱ.The Grothendieck group K0
1.The group completion of a monoid
2.K0 of a ring
3.K(X), K0(X), and KU(X) of a topological space
4.Lambda and Adams operations
5.K0 of a symmetric monoidal category
6.K0 of an abelian category
7.K0 of an exact category
8.K0 of schemes and varieties
9.K0 of a Waldhausen category
Appendix.Localizing by calculus of fractions
Chapter Ⅲ.K1 and K2 of a ring
1.The Whitehead group K1 of a ring
2.Relative K1
3.The Fundamental Theorems for K1 and K0
4.Negative K-theory
5.K2 of a ring
6.K2 of felds
7.Milnor K-theory of fields
Chapter Ⅳ.Definitions of higher K-theory
1.The BGL+ defnition for rings
2.K-theory with finite coefficients
3.Geometric realization of a small category
4.Symmetric monoidal categories
5.х-operations in higher K-theory
6.Quillen's Q-construction for exact categories
7.The “+=Q” Theorem
8.Waldhausen's ws.construction
9.The Gillet-Grayson construction
10.Nonconnective spectra in K-theory
11.Karoubi-Villamayor K-theory
12.Homotopy K-theory
Chapter Ⅴ.The Fundamental Theorems of higher K-theory
1.The Additivity Theorem
2.Waldhausen localization and approximation
3.The Resolution Theorems and transfer maps
4.Devissage
5.The Localization Theorem for abelian categoriesee
6.Applications of the Localization Theorem
7.Localization for K*(R) and K*(X)
8.The Fundamental Theorem for K*(R) and K*(X) 1oal
9.The coniveau spectral sequence of Gersten and Quillenx