Classical Tessellations and Three-Manifolds
This unusual book, richly illustrated with 29 colour illustrations and about 200 line drawings, explores the relationship between classical tessellations and three-manifolds. In his original and entertaining style, the author provides graduate students with a source of geometrical insight into low-d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: | Universitext
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This unusual book, richly illustrated with 29 colour illustrations and about 200 line drawings, explores the relationship between classical tessellations and three-manifolds. In his original and entertaining style, the author provides graduate students with a source of geometrical insight into low-dimensional topology. Researchers in this field will find here an account of a theory that is on the one hand known to them but here is presented in a very different framework |
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 230 p. 2 illus online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783642615726 |