The Geometry of Discrete Groups

by Alan F. Beardon

Book Overview

This text is intended to serve as an introduction to the geometry of the action of discrete groups of Mobius transformations. The subject matter has now been studied with changing points of emphasis for over a hundred years, the most recent developments being connected with the theory of 3-manifolds: see, for example, the papers of Poincare [77] and Thurston [101]. About 1940, the now well-known (but virtually unobtainable) Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387907882
• ISBN13: 9780387907888
• Release Date: May 1983
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"