{"product_id":"scissors-congruences-group-homology-and-characteristic-classes","title":"Scissors Congruences, Group Homology And Characteristic Classes","description":"These lecture notes are based on a series of lectures given at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics in the fall of 1998. They provide an overview of the work of the author and the late Chih-Han Sah on various aspects of Hilbert's Third Problem: Are two Euclidean polyhedra with the same volume “scissors-congruent”, i.e. can they be subdivided into finitely many pairwise congruent pieces? The book starts from the classical solution of this problem by M Dehn. But generalization to higher dimensions and other geometries quickly leads to a great variety of mathematical topics, such as homology of groups, algebraic K-theory, characteristic classes for flat bundles, and invariants for hyperbolic manifolds. Some of the material, particularly in the chapters on projective configurations, is published here for the first time.","brand":"World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56796672721240,"sku":"9789810245085","price":52.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9789810245085_1fc51d37-3ea2-41d0-8bd1-55dbd313eead.jpg?v=1778328042","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/scissors-congruences-group-homology-and-characteristic-classes","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}