References on the relations between Top, Diff and PL

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I have heard many times informal statements like "differentiable and pl manifolds are essentially the same for such and such dimensions", but I would like to know what they mean exactly and how such statements are proved. However, I have been unable to find a reference about such topics.

Do you know of any books or review papers that treat this kind of issues in detail?

Thank you in advance.