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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Montesinos-Amilibia, José María
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1987.
Series:	Universitext,
Subjects:	Mathematics. Chemistry. Geometry. Cell aggregation > Mathematics. Mathematical physics. Crystallography. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

S1-Bundles Over Surfaces
Manifolds of Tessellations on the Euclidean Plane
Appendix A: Orbifolds
Manifolds of Spherical Tessellations
Seifert Manifolds
Manifolds of Hyperbolic Tessellations
Appendix B: The Hyperbolic Plane
Source of the Ornaments
References
Further Reading
Notes to Plate I
Notes to Plate II.