Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Matt Clay
Edited by Dan Margalit
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:456
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 152
Category/GenreGeometry
ISBN/Barcode 9780691158662
ClassificationsDewey:512.2
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 136 color illus. 2 halftones. 86 line illus. 2 tables.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 11 July 2017
Publication Country United States

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

Author Biography

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).

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