Book review of: Christian Kassel and Vladimir Turaev, Braid groups; Patrick Dehornoy, Ivan Dynnikov, Dale Rolfsen and Bert Wiest, Ordering braids. (English) Zbl 1292.00013

Birman, Joan S.

Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 48, No. 1, 137-146 (2011).

Review of [Zbl 1208.20041; Zbl 1163.20024].

MSC:

00A17	External book reviews
20-02	Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to group theory
20F36	Braid groups; Artin groups
20F60	Ordered groups (group-theoretic aspects)
03E10	Ordinal and cardinal numbers
20F34	Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects)
20F10	Word problems, other decision problems, connections with logic and automata (group-theoretic aspects)
20F38	Other groups related to topology or analysis
57M25	Knots and links in the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010)
57M50	General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds
51M09	Elementary problems in hyperbolic and elliptic geometries
68Q25	Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity
68Q70	Algebraic theory of languages and automata
68W30	Symbolic computation and algebraic computation
20C08	Hecke algebras and their representations
20C25	Projective representations and multipliers
20F05	Generators, relations, and presentations of groups
20M05	Free semigroups, generators and relations, word problems
20N02	Sets with a single binary operation (groupoids)
06F15	Ordered groups
55R80	Discriminantal varieties and configuration spaces in algebraic topology

Citations:

Zbl 1208.20041; Zbl 1163.20024

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