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Book Information
Author(s):
Geoffrey Hemion
Title:
The classification of knots and 3-dimensional spaces
Additional book information:
Oxford University Press, New York, 1992, 162 pp., US$43.50. ISBN 0-19-859697-9
References:
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- [A]
- Colin Adams, The knot book, An elementary introduction to the mathematical theory of knots, W. H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1994. MR 1266837 (94m:57007)
- [BZ]
- Gerhard Burde and Heiner Zieschang, Knots, Walter de Gruyter, New York, 1985. MR 808776 (87b:57004)
- [H]
- W. Haken, Über das Homöomorphieproblem der 3-Mannigfaltigkeiten. I, Math. Z. 80 (1962), 89-120. MR 0160196 (28:3410)
- [He]
- Geoffrey Hemion, On the classification of homeomorphisms of 2-manifolds and the classification of 3-manifolds, Acta Math. 142 (1979). MR 512214 (80f:57003)
- [J]
- V. F. R. Jones, A polynomial invariant for knots and links via von Neumann algebras, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 12 (1985), 103-111. MR 766964 (86e:57006)
- [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. 45 (1974), 262-266. MR 0353294 (50:5778)
- [R]
- Dale Rolfson, Knots and links, Publish or Perish, Houston, 1976. MR 0515288 (58:24236)
- [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. MR 520520 (80e:57010)
- [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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