In the early 1980's topologists and geometers for the first time came across unfamiliar words like $C^*$-algebras a
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Table of contents :
Content: C*-algebras --
K-theory --
KK-theory --
Von Neumann algebras --
Cyclic cohomology --
Quantizations and index theory --
Foliation index theorems.