Scissors Congruences, Group Homology And Characteristic Classes

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Johan L Dupont (Aarhus Univ, Denmark) Weiping Zhang (Chern Inst Of Mathematics, China)

Scissors Congruences, Group Homology And Characteristic Classes

Johan L Dupont (Aarhus Univ, Denmark), Weiping Zhang (Chern Inst Of Mathematics, China)

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English

World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
01 March 2001

Euclidean geometry; Topology

Series: Nankai Tracts in Mathematics

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"These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume ""scissors-congruent"", ie. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M. Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristics classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time."

By: Johan L Dupont (Aarhus Univ Denmark)
Series edited by: Weiping Zhang (Chern Inst Of Mathematics China)
Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Publication: Singapore
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9789810245078
ISBN 10: 9810245076
Series: Nankai Tracts in Mathematics
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 01 March 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active