| Topics in Low Dimensional Topology: In Honor of Steve Armentrout - Proceedings of the Conference on Low-Dimensional Topology Contributor(s): Banyaga, Augustin (Editor), Movahedi-Lankarani, H. (Editor), Wells, Robert (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9810240503 ISBN-13: 9789810240509 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $46.55 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 1999 Annotation: Recent success with the four-dimensional Poincare conjecture has revived interest in low-dimensional topology, especially the three-dimensional Poincare conjecture and other aspects of the problems of classifying three-dimensional manifolds. These problems have a driving force, and have generated a great body of research, as well as insight. The main topics treated in this book include a paper by V Poenaru on the Poincare conjecture and its ramifications, giving an insight into the herculean work of the author on the subject. Steve Armentrout's paper on "Bing's dogbone space" belongs to the topics in three-dimensional topology motivated by the Poincare conjecture. S Singh gives a nice synthesis of Armentrout's work. Also included in the volume are shorter original papers, dealing with somewhat different aspects of geometry, and dedicated to Armentrout by his colleagues -- Augustin Banyaga (and Jean-Pierre Ezin), David Hurtubise, Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani and Robert Wells. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Topology - General - Medical |
| Dewey: 514 |
| Physical Information: 136 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Recent success with the four-dimensional Poincar conjecture has revived interest in low-dimensional topology, especially the three-dimensional Poincar conjecture and other aspects of the problems of classifying three-dimensional manifolds. These problems have a driving force, and have generated a great body of research, as well as insight.The main topics treated in this book include a paper by V Poenaru on the Poincar conjecture and its ramifications, giving an insight into the herculean work of the author on the subject. Steve Armentrout's paper on "Bing's dogbone space" belongs to the topics in three-dimensional topology motivated by the Poincar conjecture. S Singh gives a nice synthesis of Armentrout's work. Also included in the volume are shorter original papers, dealing with somewhat different aspects of geometry, and dedicated to Armentrout by his colleagues -- Augustin Banyaga (and Jean-Pierre Ezin), David Hurtubise, Hossein Movahedi-Lankarani and Robert Wells. |