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Matt Clay - Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist - 9780691158662 - V9780691158662
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Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist

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Description for Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist Paperback. Editor(s): Clay, Matt; Margalit, Dan. Num Pages: 464 pages, 136 color illus. 2 halftones. 86 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: PBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 138.
Geometric group theory is the study of the interplay between groups and the spaces they act on, and has its roots in the works of Henri Poincare, Felix Klein, J.H.C. Whitehead, and Max Dehn. Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist brings together leading experts who provide one-on-one instruction on key topics in this exciting and relatively new field of mathematics. It's like having office hours with your most trusted math professors. An essential primer for undergraduates making the leap to graduate work, the book begins with free groups--actions of free groups on trees, algorithmic questions about free groups, the ping-pong lemma, and automorphisms of free groups. It goes on to cover several large-scale geometric invariants of groups, including quasi-isometry groups, Dehn functions, Gromov hyperbolicity, and asymptotic dimension. It also delves into important examples of groups, such as Coxeter groups, Thompson's groups, right-angled Artin groups, lamplighter groups, mapping class groups, and braid groups. The tone is conversational throughout, and the instruction is driven by examples. Accessible to students who have taken a first course in abstract algebra, Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist also features numerous exercises and in-depth projects designed to engage readers and provide jumping-off points for research projects.

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
138g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691158662
SKU
V9780691158662
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About Matt Clay
Matt Clay is associate professor of mathematics at the University of Arkansas. Dan Margalit is professor of mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor of A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (Princeton).

Reviews for Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist
Office Hours with a Geometric Group Theorist is a fun and enticing introduction to a growing field of mathematics. It provides a valuable and much-needed resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
Ruth Charney, Brandeis University One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018 In a book with this many authors, it might be expected that their individual contributions would vary significantly in terms of accessibility and readability, but in fact this turned out (presumably as a result of careful editing) not to be the case: the office hours are of uniformly high quality in both of these regards. Their informal, conversational tone should appeal to students (and also to non-specialist faculty who want to learn something about these topics).
-Mark Hunacek, Mathematical Gazette Original and encyclopedic.
Daniel Groves, University of Illinois, Chicago This book is a gentle introduction to the basics, and some of the gems, of geometric group theory. It gives a good flavor for many aspects of the field, the writing is clear and interesting, and there is an emphasis on examples. This is a great place to send students, both undergraduate and graduate, for a first look at geometric group theory.
Benson Farb, University of Chicago

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