3-Manifolds (Hardcover)

Preliminaries Heegaard splittings Connected sums The loop and sphere theorems Free groups Incompressible surfaces Kneser's conjecture on free products Finitely generated subgroups More on connected sums; Finite and abelian subgroups I-bundles Group extensions and fibrations Seifert fibered spaces Classification of $P^2$-irreducible, sufficiently large 3-manifolds Some approaches to the Poincare conjecture Open problems References Index Symbols and notation.