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(Paperback)

By: Richard M. Weiss

ISBN: 9780691124605
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Based on their relationship to exceptional algebraic groups, quadrangular algebras belong in a series together with alternative and Jordan division algebras, this book introduces a class of non-associative algebras related to exceptional algebraic groups and their associated buildings.


(Paperback)

By: Richard M. Weiss

ISBN: 9780691138817
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Gives a presentation of the complete proof of the classification of Bruhat-Tits buildings first completed by Jacques Tits in 1986. This book includes numerous results about automorphisms, completions, and residues of these buildings.


(Hardback)

By: Richard M. Weiss

ISBN: 9780691117331
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the theory of buildings, a topic of central importance to mathematicians interested in the geometric aspects of group theory. Its detailed presentation makes it suitable for graduate students as well as specialists. Richard Weiss begins with an introduction to Coxeter groups and goes on t