Algorithmic and Computer Methods for Three-manifolds (Paperback)

1. Preliminary Information. 2. Surfaces. 3. The Homeotopy Group of a Surface. 4. The Presentation of Three-Dimensional Manifolds by the Identification of Faces of Polyhedra. 5. Heegaard Splittings and Heegaard Diagrams. 6. Algorithmic Recognition of the Sphere. 7. Connected Sums. 8. Knots and Links. 9. Surgery Along Links. 10. Seifert Manifolds. 11. Class H. 12. The Haken Method. Comments on the Figures. References. Index.