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Discontinuous Groups of Isometries in the Hyperbolic Plane: 29
Author(s): Fenchel (Author)
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication Date: 16 Dec. 2002
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 388 pages
- ISBN-10: 3110175266
- ISBN-13: 9783110175264
Book Description
Fuchsian groups play a central role in various important fields of mathematics. The current book is based on what became known as the famous Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript. Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) started this project well before World War II, Werner Fenchel (1905-1988) joined later and overtook the much of the preparation of the manuscript. Professor Asmus Schmidt (University of Copenhagen) is the editor of this first publication in book form of the Fenchel-Nielsen notes. It is on his initiative that the long and difficult way of getting the original notes into the proper shape ready for publication succeeded.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“The Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript has been famous for a long time already and its final publication is a valuable edition to mathematical literature.”
EMS Newsletter
“Those working in the field will be grateful to the editor Asmus Schmidt for producing this classic text; it can now be cited without the annoying reference ‘Fenchel an Nielsen (to appear)’.”
David Singerman in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 36/2004
About the Author
Asmus L. Schmidt is Associate Professor at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
