Buildings
Abramenko, Peter; Brown, Ken
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Description for Buildings
Hardcover. Covering all three approaches to Jacques Tits's beautiful theory of buildings, this accessible volume is suitable as a textbook introduction to the subject as well as a self-study text for researchers. It contains numerous exercises. Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 776 pages, 100 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1316.
This text started out as a revised version of Buildings by the second-named author [53], but it has grown into a much more voluminous book. The earlier book was intended to give a short, friendly, elementary introduction to theory, accessible to readers with a minimal background.Moreover, it approached buildings from only one point of view, sometimes called the “old-fashioned” approach: A building is a simplicial complex with certain properties. The current book includes all the material of the earlier one, but we have added a lot. In particular, we have included the “modern” (or “W-metric”) approach to buildings, which looks ... Read more
This text started out as a revised version of Buildings by the second-named author [53], but it has grown into a much more voluminous book. The earlier book was intended to give a short, friendly, elementary introduction to theory, accessible to readers with a minimal background.Moreover, it approached buildings from only one point of view, sometimes called the “old-fashioned” approach: A building is a simplicial complex with certain properties. The current book includes all the material of the earlier one, but we have added a lot. In particular, we have included the “modern” (or “W-metric”) approach to buildings, which looks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
776
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Graduate Texts in Mathematics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
754
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387788340
SKU
V9780387788340
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About Abramenko, Peter; Brown, Ken
Kenneth S. Brown has been a professor at Cornell since 1971. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 from MIT. He has published many works, including Buildings with Springer-Verlag in 1989, reprinted in 1998. Peter Abramenko received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the University of Frankfurt, Germany. He held various academic positions afterwards, including a Heisenberg fellowship from 1998 until 2001. ... Read more
Reviews for Buildings
From the reviews: American Mathematical Society Mathematical Reviews MR2439729: "The book under review ... is the first encyclopedic treatment of buildings made available in the literature, so that with writing this book the authors manage to close a serious gap in the mathematical literature: the non-existence of an easily accessible reference for buildings beyond an introduction. In ... Read more