1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790832403321

Autore

Burde Gerhard <1931->

Titolo

Knots / / Gerhard Burde, Heiner Zieschang, Michael Heusener

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, , 2013

ISBN

3-11-027078-1

Edizione

[Third, fully revised and extended edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Collana

De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics ; ; 5

De Gruyter studies in mathematics, , 0179-0986 ; ; 5

Classificazione

SK 300

Altri autori (Persone)

ZieschangHeiner

HeusenerMichael

Disciplina

514/.2242

Soggetti

Knot theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Knots and isotopies -- Chapter 2: Geometric concepts -- Chapter 3: Knot groups -- Chapter 4: Commutator subgroup of a knot group -- Chapter 5: Fibered knots -- Chapter 6: A characterization of torus knots -- Chapter 7: Factorization of knots -- Chapter 8: Cyclic coverings and Alexander invariants -- Chapter 9: Free differential calculus and Alexander matrices -- Chapter 10: Braids -- Chapter 11: Manifolds as branched coverings -- Chapter 12: Montesinos links -- Chapter 13: Quadratic forms of a knot -- Chapter 14: Representations of knot groups -- Chapter 15: Knots, knot manifolds, and knot groups -- Chapter 16: Bridge number and companionship -- Chapter 17: The 2-variable skein polynomial -- Appendix A: Algebraic theorems -- Appendix B: Theorems of 3-dimensional topology -- Appendix C: Table -- Appendix D: Knot projections 01-949 -- References -- Author index -- Glossary of Symbols -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an introduction to classical knot theory. Topics covered include: different constructions of knots, knot diagrams, knot groups, fibred knots, characterisation of torus knots, prime decomposition of knots, cyclic coverings and Alexander polynomials and modules together with the free differential calculus, braids, branched coverings and knots, Montesinos links, representations of knot groups, surgery of



3-manifolds and knots, Jones and HOMFLYPT polynomials. Knot theory has expanded enormously since the first edition of this book published in 1985. In this third completely revised and extended edition a chapter about bridge number and companionship of knots has been added. The book contains many figures and some tables of invariants of knots. This comprehensive account is an indispensable reference source for anyone interested in both classical and modern knot theory. Most of the topics considered in the book are developed in detail; only the main properties of fundamental groups, covering spaces and some basic results of combinatorial group theory are assumed to be known. The text is accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818866003321

Autore

Renton Dave <1972->

Titolo

Fascism : history and theory / / David Renton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

9781786806505

1-78680-651-7

1-78680-650-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 pages)

Disciplina

320.533094

Soggetti

Fascism - Europe - History

Europe Politics and government 20th century

Europe Politique et gouvernement 20e siècle

Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the anti-fascist wager -- Interwar fascism -- An alternative method -- Marxists against Mussolini and Hitler -- Benjamin, Gramsci, Trotsky -- Beyond 1933 -- Marxists and the Holocaust -- Conclusion : a specific form of reactionary mass



movement.

Sommario/riassunto

Across Europe and the world, far right parties have been enjoying greater electoral success than at any time since 1945. Right-wing street movements draw huge supporters and terrorist attacks on Jews and Muslims proliferate. It sometimes seems we are returning to the age of fascism.0To explain this disturbing trend, David Renton surveys the history of fascism in Europe from its pre-war origins to the present day, examining Marxist responses to fascism in the age of Hitler and Mussolini, the writings of Trotsky and Gramsci and contemporary theorists. Renton theorises that fascism was driven by the chaotic and unstable balance between reactionary ambitions and the mass character of its support. This approach will arm a new generation of anti-fascists to resist those who seek to re-enact fascism.0Rewritten and revised for the twentieth anniversary of its first publication, Renton's classic book synthesises the Marxist theory of fascism and updates it for our own times.