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The volumes supply thorough and detailed expositions of the methods and ideas essential to the topics in question. In addition, they convey their relationships to other parts of mathematics. The series is addressed to advanced readers wishing to thoroughly study the topic.

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This is an introductory textbook on isometry groups of the hyperbolic plane. Interest in such groups dates back more than 120 years. Examples appear in number theory (modular groups and triangle groups), the theory of elliptic functions, and the theory of linear differential equations in the complex domain (giving rise to the alternative name Fuchsian groups).

The current book is based on what became known as the famous Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript. Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) started this project well before World War II, and his interest arose through his deep investigations on the...

This study examines the place of Hermann von Helmholtz s seminal papers on geometry in his philosophy of science. The arguments of these papers are traced back to his prior work on the theory of magnitudes, as well as to Helmholtz s early, Kantian position. The author claims that Helmholtz should be understood not as opposing Kant, but as modifying the latter s theory of magnitudes so as to remove obstacles to their common project of constructing a complete system of natural science.

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs which cover the whole spectrum of current nonlinear analysis and applications in various fields, such as optimization, control theory, systems theory, mechanics, engineering, and other sciences. One of its main objectives is to make available to the professional community expositions of results and foundations of methods that play an important role in both the theory and applications of nonlinear analysis. Contributions which are on the borderline of nonlinear analysis and related fields and which stimulate further research...

Softcover printing of a popular title (h/c sold over 400 copies in North America) at a price that will make it accessible to a much wider audience

Richly illustrated with original art works in addition to well-known and little-known works by Escher

A CD-ROM complements the articles, containing color illustrations of work by contemporary artists, movies, animations, and other demonstrations

Surfaces in 4-Space, written by leading specialists in the field, discusses knotted surfaces in 4-dimensional space and surveys many of the known results in the area. Results on knotted surface diagrams, constructions of knotted surfaces, classically defined invariants, and new invariants defined via quandle homology theory are presented. The last chapter comprises many recent results, and techniques for computation are presented. New tables of quandles with a few elements and the homology groups thereof are included.

This book contains many new...

From the reviews: " A unique and fascinating blend, which is shown to be useful for a variety of applications, including robotics, geometrical optics, computer animation, and geometric design. The contents of the book are visualized by a wealth of carefully chosen illustrations, making the book a shear pleasure to read, or even to just browse in." Mathematical Reviews

This is a softcover reprint of the 1987 English translation of the second edition of Bourbaki's Espaces Vectoriels Topologiques. Much of the material has been rearranged, rewritten, or replaced by a more up-to-date exposition, and a good deal of new material has been incorporated in this book, reflecting decades of progress in the field.

Die Ebene Geometrie von Koecher und Krieg betont - anders als vergleichbare Lehrbucher zu diesem Gebiet - den analytischen Standpunkt. Neben einer Einfuhrung in die axiomatische Geometrie affiner und projektiver Ebenen wird die klassische Schulgeometrie mit den Methoden der Linearen Algebra behandelt. Als weiterfuhrende Ergebnisse findet man z.B. den Satz von Feuerbach, den Satz von Morley uber das aus den Winkeldreiteilenden gebildete Dreieck oder den Satz von Pascal uber Kurven zweiten Grades. Das Buch bietet einen gut strukturierten Lehrtext zur Geometrie, der durch die Fulle von...