Hermitian K-Theory and Geometric Applications [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the Conference held at the Seattle Research Center of the Battelle Memorial Institute, from August 28 to September 8, 1972 / edited by H. Bass.

Hermitian K — Theory in topology -- Some problems in hermitian K — Theory -- Some problems and conjectures in algebraic K-theory -- Unitary algegraic K-theory -- Foundations of algebraic L-theory -- Périodicité de la K — Théorie hermitienne -- Algebraic L-theory III. Twisted laurent extensions -- Surgery and unitary K2 -- Surgery groups and inner automorphisms -- Mayer-vietoris sequences in hermitian K-theory -- Groups of singular hermitian forms -- Proper surgery groups and wall-Novikov groups -- Induction in equivariant K - theory and geometric applications.