Vladimir G. Turaev, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Its treatment of modular categories, of modular functors, and of TQFT has stood the test of time and in many ways is still unsurpassed. [...] In the reviewer's opinion, this book continues to be essential reading for anyone who wants to be a quantum topologist. Zentralblatt f r Mathematik (review of the second edition) It is still the latest and greatest go-to source for information on quantum field theories in three dimensions [...]. Zentralblatt f r Mathematik