Geometries and Groups (Universitext; Springer Series in Soviet Mathematics) (English and Russian Edition)

Viacheslav V. Nikulin, Igor R. Shafarevich

ISBN 10: 0387152814 / ISBN 13: 9780387152813

Published by Springer Verlag, 1987

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Geometries and Groups (Universitext; Springer Series in Soviet Mathematics) (English and Russian Edition)
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387152814
• ISBN 13: 9780387152813
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: book

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Geometries and Groups This is a quite exceptional book, a lively and approachable treatment of an important field of mathematics given in a masterly style. Assuming only a school background, the authors develop locally Euclidean geometries, going as far as the modular space of structures on the torus, treated in terms of Lobachevsky's non-Euclidean geometry. Each section is carefully motivated by discussion of the phys... Full description