A comprehensive 1997 survey of the field of tight and taut submanifolds.
Preface; 1. Remembering Nicolaas Kuiper Thomas F. Banchoff; 2. Roever lectures in geometry Nicolaas H. Kuiper; 3. Smooth and polyhedral tight immersions Thomas F. Banchoff; 4. Tightness for smooth and polyhedral immersions of the real projective plane with one handle Davide P. Cervone; 5. Taut and Dupin submanifolds Thomas E. Cecil; 6. Taut immersions into complete Riemannian manifolds Chuu-Lian Terng and Gudlaugur Thorbergsson; 7. Null-homotopic embedded spheres of codimension one Daniel Ruberman; 8. Real hypersurfaces in complex space forms Ross Niebergall and Patrick Ryan; 9. Biography on tight, taut and isoparametric submanifolds Wolfgang Kühnel and Thomas E. Cecil; List of publications by Nicolaas H. Kuiper; Dissertations of N. H. Juiper's doctoral students.