Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist
By (Author) Matt Clay
Edited by Dan Margalit
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th September 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Geometry
512.2
Physical Properties
Paperback
456
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
Description
Geometric group theory is the study of the interplay between groups and the spaces they act on, and has its roots in the works of Henri Poincare, Felix Klein, J.H.C. Whitehead, and Max Dehn. Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist brings together leading experts who provide one-on-one instruction on key topics in this exciting and relatively n
Reviews
"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018"
"In a book with this many authors, it might be expected that their individual contributions would vary significantly in terms of accessibility and readability, but in fact this turned out (presumably as a result of careful editing) not to be the case: the office hours are of uniformly high quality in both of these regards. Their informal, conversational tone should appeal to students (and also to non-specialist faculty who want to learn something about these topics)."---Mark Hunacek, Mathematical Gazette
Author Bio
Matt Clay is associate professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas. Dan Margalit is professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (Princeton).
