
This book gives an introduction to Jacques Tit's theory of buildings, a subject in which there is a rich interplay between group theory and geometry. The book starts from scratch, with a discussion of finite reflection groups, and takes the reader to the literature on buildings...

This is a book about esoteric mathematics, not about architecture. The monograph, derived from a course taught to graduate students at Cornell in 1987, provides review of a topic which has to do with aspects of the interaction between geometry and group theory, a topic first...

This book gives an introduction to Jacques Tit's theory of buildings, a subject in which there is a rich interplay between group theory and geometry. The book starts from scratch, with a discussion of finite reflection groups, and takes the reader to the literature on buildings...