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This book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to familarize themselves with research in braid groups, configuration spaces and their applications. Starting at the beginning, and assuming only basic topology and group theory, the volume's noted expositors take the reader through the fundamental theory and on to current research and applications in fields as varied as astrophysics, cryptography and robotics. As leading researchers themselves, the authors write enthusiastically about their topics, and include many striking illustrations. The chapters have their origins in tutorials given at a Summer School on Braids, at the National University of Singapore's Institute for Mathematical Sciences in June 2007, to an audience of more than thirty international graduate students.

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Tutorial on the Braid Groups; Simplicial Objects and Homotopy Groups; Introduction to Configuration Spaces and Their Applications; Braids and Magnetic Fields; Configuration Spaces, Braids, and Robotics; Braid Group Cryptography.

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    A Hardback by A Jon Berrick, Fred Cohen, Elizabeth Hanbury

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      Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/12/2009
      ISBN13: 9789814291408, 978-9814291408
      ISBN10: 9814291404

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking to familarize themselves with research in braid groups, configuration spaces and their applications. Starting at the beginning, and assuming only basic topology and group theory, the volume's noted expositors take the reader through the fundamental theory and on to current research and applications in fields as varied as astrophysics, cryptography and robotics. As leading researchers themselves, the authors write enthusiastically about their topics, and include many striking illustrations. The chapters have their origins in tutorials given at a Summer School on Braids, at the National University of Singapore's Institute for Mathematical Sciences in June 2007, to an audience of more than thirty international graduate students.

      Table of Contents
      Tutorial on the Braid Groups; Simplicial Objects and Homotopy Groups; Introduction to Configuration Spaces and Their Applications; Braids and Magnetic Fields; Configuration Spaces, Braids, and Robotics; Braid Group Cryptography.

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