Buildings: Theory and Applications

by Kenneth S. Brown and Peter Abramenko

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387788344
• ISBN13: 9780387788340
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 754 Pages
• Weight: 2.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.5"