An introduction to contact topology

Foreword 1. Facets of Contact Geometry 2. Contact Manifolds 3. Knots in Contact 3-Manifolds 4. Contact Structures on 3-Manifolds 5. Symplectic Fillings and Convexity 6. Contact Surgery 7. Further Constructions of Contact Manifolds 8. Contact Structures on 5-Manifolds Appendix A. The generalised Poincare lemma Appendix B. Time-dependent vector fields References Notation Index Author Index Subject Index.