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From the preface: """ this book is an introduction to surfaces and three-manifolds, and to their geometrisation, due to Poincaré and Koebe in 1907 in dimension
by mathgenius 10y ago
From the preface:
""" this book is an introduction to surfaces and three-manifolds,
and to their geometrisation, due to Poincaré and Koebe in 1907 in dimension
two and to Thurston and Perelmann in 2002 in dimension three. Therefore
this is also a textbook on low-dimensional topology, except that we completely
neglect four-manifolds, that form a relevant part of this area but which do not
(yet?) fit in any geometrisation perspective."""
Warning: if you just want to have a look-see, skip over chapter 1. There's plenty of pictures starting in chapter 2 that give an idea of what this is all about.