Classical Tessellations and Three-Manifolds /

This unusual book, richly illustrated with 19 colour plates and about 250 line drawings, explores the relationship between classical tessellations and3-manifolds. In his original entertaining style with numerous exercises and problems, the author provides graduate students with a source of geomerica...

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Main Author: Montesinos-Amilibia, José María
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987.
Series:Universitext,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This unusual book, richly illustrated with 19 colour plates and about 250 line drawings, explores the relationship between classical tessellations and3-manifolds. In his original entertaining style with numerous exercises and problems, the author provides graduate students with a source of geomerical insight to low-dimensional topology, while researchers in this field will find here an account of a theory that is on the one hand known tothem but here is presented in a very different framework.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 230 pages 225 illustrations)
ISBN:9783642615726 (electronic bk.)
3642615724 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:0172-5939