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The Mathematical Legacy of Wilhelm Magnus: Groups, Geometry and Special Functions
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William Abikoff, Joan S. Birman and Kathryn Kuiken, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1994; Volume 169
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5156-2 (print); 978-0-8218-7760-9 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/169
MathSciNet review: 1292894
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Articles
- G. D. Anderson, M. K. Vamanamurthy and M. Vuorinen – Inequalities for plane quasiconformal mappings [MR 1292895]
- Richard Askey – A look at the Bateman project [MR 1292896]
- Hyman Bass and Alexander Lubotzky – Linear-central filtrations on groups [MR 1292897]
- Gilbert Baumslag – Musings on Magnus [MR 1292898]
- Kevin Berry and Marvin Tretkoff – The monodromy group of a transcendental function [MR 1292899]
- J. S. Birman, D. D. Long and J. A. Moody – Finite-dimensional representations of Artin’s braid group [MR 1292900]
- J. W. Cannon, W. J. Floyd and W. R. Parry – Squaring rectangles: the finite Riemann mapping theorem [MR 1292901]
- Benjamin Fine and Gerhard Rosenberger – The Freiheitssatz and its extensions [MR 1292902]
- Ismor Fischer – A Rodrigues-type formula for the $q$-Racah polynomials and some related results [MR 1292903]
- George K. Francis and Louis H. Kauffman – Air on the Dirac strings [MR 1292904]
- Anthony M. Gaglione and Dennis Spellman – Does Lyndon’s length function imply the universal theory of free groups? [MR 1292905]
- Daniel M. Gallo – Schottky groups and the boundary of Teichmüller space: genus $2$ [MR 1292906]
- Frederick P. Gardiner and Dennis Sullivan – Lacunary series as quadratic differentials in conformal dynamics [MR 1292907]
- Robert H. Gilman – The geometry of cycles in the Cayley diagram of a group [MR 1292908]
- W. J. Harvey – Braids, Riemann surfaces and moduli [MR 1292909]
- R. Hirshon – Some remarks on $J$ replacement in direct products [MR 1292910]
- Harry Hochstadt – Wilhelm Magnus, applied mathematician [MR 1292911]
- A. Juhász and G. Rosenberger – On the combinatorial curvature of groups of $F$-type and other one-relator free products [MR 1292912]
- Kathryn Kuiken and John T. Masterson – Branched dihedral structures on Riemann surfaces [MR 1292913]
- John P. Labute – Groups and Lie algebras: the Magnus theory [MR 1292914]
- Joseph Lehner – Semiregular continued fractions whose partial denominators are $1$ or $2$ [MR 1292915]
- Frank Levin – Testing for the center of a one-relator group [MR 1292916]
- Seymour Lipschutz – Generalizing the Baer-Stallings pregroup [MR 1292917]
- O. Macedońska and Donald M. Solitar – On binary $\sigma$-invariant words in a group [MR 1292918]
- Bernard Maskit – Explicit matrices for Fuchsian groups [MR 1292919]
- Robert Fitzgerald Morse – Levi-properties generated by varieties [MR 1292920]
- D. S. Passman – Chains of primitive ideals [MR 1292921]
- Thea Pignataro and Hanna Sandler – Families of closed geodesics on hyperbolic surfaces with common self-intersections [MR 1292922]
- John G. Ratcliffe – On the isometry groups of hyperbolic manifolds [MR 1292923]
- Vladimir Tasić – A generalization of Lazard’s theorem on modular dimension subgroups [MR 1292924]