3-Manifolds (AMS Chelsea Publishing)
By John Hempel.
Description
For many years, John Hempel's book has been a standard text on the topology of 3-manifolds. Even though the field has grown tremendously, the book remains one of the best and most popular introductions to the subject. The theme of this book is the role of the fundamental group in determining the topology of a given 3-manifold. The essential ideas and techniques are covered in the first part of the book: Heegaard splittings, connected sums, the loop and sphere theorems, incompressible surfaces, free groups, and so on.Along the way, many useful and insightful results are proved, usually ...
ISBN(s)
0821836951, 9780821836958
