In mathematics, specifically in geometric topology, surgery theory is a collection of techniques used to produce one finite-dimensional manifold from another in a 'controlled' way, introduced by John Milnor. Milnor called this technique surgery, while Andrew Wallace called it spherical modification. The "surgery" on a differentiable manifold M of dimension , could be described as removing an imbedded sphere of dimension p from M. Originally developed for differentiable (or, smooth) manifolds, surgery techniques also apply to piecewise linear (PL-) and topological manifolds. Surgery refers to cutting out parts of the manifold and replacing it with a part of another manifold, matching up along the cut or boundary. This is closely related to, but not identical with, handlebody decompositions. More technically, the idea is to start with a well-understood manifold M and perform surgery on it to produce a manifold M′ having some desired property, in such a way that the effects on the homology, homotopy groups, or other invariants of the manifold are known. A relatively easy argument using Morse theory shows that a manifold can be obtained from another one by a sequence of spherical modifications if and only if those two belong to a same cobordism class. The classification of exotic spheres by Michel Kervaire and Milnor led to the emergence of surgery theory as a major tool in high-dimensional topology. (Wikipedia).
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Surgery is a field that requires a lot of focus and precision. Indeed, there can be no mistakes in surgical operating rooms and surgeons can use all the help they can get. This is where surgical robots come into play. Perhaps the most famous surgical robot is the Da Vinci robot. That mac
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