A Motivating Problem -- to the Novikov and the Borel Conjecture -- Normal Bordism Groups -- The Signature -- The Signature Theorem and the Novikov Conjecture -- The Projective Class Group and the Whitehead Group -- Whitehead Torsion -- The Statement and Consequences of the s-Cobordism Theorem -- Sketch of the Proof of the s-Cobordism Theorem -- From the Novikov Conjecture to Surgery -- Surgery …