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Author(s):
Geoffrey Hemion
Title:
The classification of knots and {\rm 3}-dimensional spaces
Additional book information:
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, 162 pp., US$43.50. ISBN 0-19-859697-9
References:
- [A]
- Colin Adams, The knot book, An elementary introduction to the mathematical theory of knots, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1994.
- [BZ]
- Gerhard Burde and Heiner Zieschang, Knots, Walter de Gruyter, New York, 1985.
- [H]
- W. Haken, \"Uber das Hom\"oomorphieproblem der $3$-Mannigfaltigkeiten. {\rm I}, Math. Z. \textbf{80} (1962), 89--120.
- [He]
- Geoffrey Hemion, On the classification of homeomorphisms of $2$-manifolds and the classification of $3$-manifolds, Acta Math. \textbf{142} (1979).
- [J]
- V. F. R. Jones, A polynomial invariant for knots and links via von Neumann algebras, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) \textbf{12} (1985), 103--111.
- [K]
- Louis Kauffman, On knots, Ann. of Math. Stud., vol. 115, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, 1987.
- [P]
- K. Perko, On the classification of knots, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. \textbf{45} (1974), 262--266.
- [R]
- Dale Rolfson, Knots and links, Publish or Perish, Houston, 1976.
- [W]
- Friedhelm Waldhausen, Recent results on sufficiently large $3$-manifolds, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., vol. 32, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1979, pp. 21--37.
- [We]
- Jeffrey Weeks, SNAPPEA, Geometry Supercomputer Project, Minneapolis, MN, 1992.
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Abigail
Thompson
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
31
(1994),
252-254.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1994-00510-5
PII:
S 0273-0979(1994)00510-5
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