Seminarium KMMF "Teoria Dwoistości"

This is an expository talk about the Atiyah-Singer indextheorem. First, some low dimensional examples of the theorem will beconsidered. Next, a special case of the index theorem willbe proved as a corollary of Bott periodicity. Finally, the proof willbe outlined that the special case implies the full theorem. This is anexpository talk intended for non-specialists.