TOPOLOGICAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORIES AND GEOMETRY OF LOOP SPACES - PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE ON GEOMETRY AND ANALYSIS OF LOOP SPACES

These lectures introduce some very popular fields in topology. The topics discussed are interrelated with modern physics and include works of four leading researchers: M Atiyah, R Bott, J Jones and G Segal. The original lectures presented at the conference at Budapest are enlarged with appendices to make these notes self-contained.