Scissors Congruences, Group Homology and Characteristic Classes Contributor(s): DuPont, Johan L. (Author), Zhang, Weiping (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9810245084 ISBN-13: 9789810245085 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $49.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Geometry - Analytic |
Dewey: 516.2 |
LCCN: 2001273068 |
Series: Nankai Tracts in Mathematics |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.02" W x 8.48" (0.54 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume "scissors-congruent", i.e. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristic classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time. |