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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Foundations of hyperbolic manifolds</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Ratcliffe, John G.</namePart>
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    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">Cham, Switzerland</placeTerm>
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    <publisher>Springer</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2026</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xii, 800 p. : ill. ;  24 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>A graduate-level textbook presenting the theoretical foundations of hyperbolic manifolds, including hyperbolic geometry, discrete groups, geometric topology, and orbifolds. Suitable as both a textbook and a reference work.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Euclidean geometry -- Spherical geometry -- Hyperbolic geometry -- Inversive geometry -- Isometries of hyperbolic space -- Geometry of discrete groups -- Classical discrete groups -- Geometric manifolds -- Geometric surfaces -- Hyperbolic 3-manifolds -- Hyperbolic n-manifolds -- Geometrically finite n-manifolds -- Geometric orbifolds.
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">John G. Ratcliffe.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  <subject>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Hyperbolic manifolds</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Hyperbolic geometry</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Topology</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Discrete groups (Mathematics)</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Geometric structures</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">516.9 RAT</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9783032206763 (pbk.)</identifier>
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