{"product_id":"the-structure-of-affine-buildings-9780691138817","title":"The Structure of Affine Buildings","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Affine Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e, Richard Weiss gives a detailed presentation of the complete proof of the classification of Bruhat-Tits buildings first completed by Jacques Tits in 1986. The book includes numerous results about automorphisms, completions, and residues of these buildings. It also includes tables correlating the results in the locally finite case with the results of Tits's classification of absolutely simple algebraic groups defined over a local field. A companion to Weiss's \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Spherical Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Affine Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e is organized around the classification of spherical buildings and their root data as it is carried out in Tits and Weiss's \u003ci\u003eMoufang Polygons\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard M. Weiss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780691138817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard M. Weiss\u003c\/b\u003e is the William Walker Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University and Honorary Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Spherical Buildings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQuadrangular Algebras\u003c\/i\u003e (both Princeton) and the coauthor with\u003cbr\u003eJacques Tits of \u003ci\u003eMoufang Polygons\u003c\/i\u003e. He received a Humboldt Research Prize in 2004.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40087146201203,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":74.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_cd2ab1ed-77b3-4015-8f8c-342e2dcde82f.jpg?v=1652538869","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-structure-of-affine-buildings-9780691138817","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}