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This is an introductory textbook on isometry groups of the hyperbolic plane. Interest in such groups dates back more than 120 years. Examples appear in number theory (modular groups and triangle groups), the theory of elliptic functions, and the theory of linear differential equations in the complex domain (giving rise to the alternative name Fuchsian groups).
The current book is based on what became known as the famous Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript. Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) started this project well before World War II, and his interest arose through his deep investigations on the topology of Riemann surfaces and from the fact that the fundamental group of a surface of genus greater than one is represented by such a discontinuous group. Werner Fenchel (1905-1988) joined the project later and overtook much of the preparation of the manuscript. The present book is special because of its very complete treatment of groups containing reversions and because it avoids the use of matrices to represent Moebius maps.
This text is intended for students and researchers in the many areas of mathematics that involve the use of discontinuous groups.
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Dr. Jakob Nielsen ist Mitgründer und Leiter der Nielsen Norman Group. Das Nachrichtenmagazin U.S. News & World Report bezeichnete Nielsen als "den weltweit führenden Experten für Web Usability". Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher, die in 22 Sprachen übersetzt wurden.
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"The Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript has been famous for a long time already and its final publication is a valuable edition to mathematical literature." (EMS Newsletter)
"Those working in the field will be grateful to the editor Asmus Schmidt for producing this classic text; it can now be cited without the annoying reference 'Fenchel an Nielsen (to appear)'." (David Singerman in: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 36/2004)
