# nLab Max Karoubi

Max Karoubi is a French topologist, with main interests in algebraic and topological K-theory, cyclic (co)homology and noncommutative geometry à là Connes. He introduced the noncommutative differential forms to generalize the de Rham complex to noncommutative geometry.

## Selected writings

Introducing what came to be known as Karoubi K-theory:

• Max Karoubi, Espaces Classifiants en K-Théorie, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 147 1 (Jan., 1970) 75-115 $[$doi:10.2307/1995218$]$
• Max Karoubi, K-Theory – An introduction, Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften 226, Springer 1978 (pdf, doi:10.1007%2F978-3-540-79890-3)

• Lectures on K-theory, Proc. of the Trieste Conference in 2002, Contemporary Developments in Algebraic K-theory, ICTP Lecture notes 15 (2003).

• Max Karoubi, Equivariant K-theory of real vector spaces and real vector bundles, Topology and its Applications, 122, (2002) 531-456 (arXiv:math/0509497)
• Algebraic Topology via Differential Geometry (with Christian Leruste). Cambridge Univ. Press (1987), based on Méthodes de géométrie différentielle en topologie algébrique (1982, Paris 7)
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