Invitations to Geometry and Topology
ISBN13: 9780198507727ISBN10: 0198507720
Hardback,
338 pages
Dec 2002,
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Description
This volume presents an array of topics that introduce the reader to key ideas in active areas in geometry and topology. The material is presented in a way that both graduate students and researchers should find accessible and enticing. The topics covered range from Morse theory and complex geometry theory to geometric group theory, and are accompanied by exercises that are designed to deepen the reader's understanding and to guide them in exciting directions for future investigation.Features
- Accessible introductions to topics of current interest, great value to graduate students embarking on research
- Wide range of topics covered giving graduate students and researchers in other areas of mathematics a good insight into the nature of current research activity
- Contains exercises
- Extensive bibliographies
- Extensive use of figures to illustrate the text
- Consists of previously unpublished articles by well known mathematicians
Product Details
338 pages; 33 line illus & 1 halftone; ISBN13: 978-0-19-850772-7ISBN10: 0-19-850772-0About the Author(s)
Edited by Martin R. Bridson, Professor of Topology, University of Oxford , and Simon M. Salamon, Professor of Geometry, Politecnico di Torino
