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Birkhäuser Mathematics Bulletin 2 | 2006 Editorial Contents 2 Matters Dear friends of Birkhäuser, Birkhäuser Verlag AG Logic 3 Viaduktstrasse 42 Number Theory 3 it is with great pleasure that we present to you CH – 4051 Basel Algebra 4 today our Mathematics Bulletin in its new look. Tel: +41 / 61 / 2 05 07 07 Geometry / Topology 7 Birkhäuser’s new company logo, the red book Fax: +41 / 61 / 2 05 07 92 Analysis 9 mark, stands for our competence in publishing and Editors: our core values. An innovation-driven approach, Dr. Thomas Hempfling Mathematical Physics 19 together with reliability of content and trustworthy Executive Editor Numerical and services will make the difference in the area of Mathematics/Physics Computational Mathematics 20 sciences where the high speed of information flow [email protected] Applications of lies at the basis of success. 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Graduate students, researchers, Norman, OK, USA / Short, H., Université dedicated to Dehn functions, negatively mathematicians, math physicists, de Provence, Marseille, France / curved groups, in particular, CAT(0) Algebraic Geometry algebraists, algebraic geometers, Riley, T., Cornell University, groups, cubings and cubical complexes. and Number Theory number theorists, students and Ithaca, NY, USA In the last part, filling functions are In Honor of Vladimir Drinfeld's colleagues of Drinfeld who know presented from geometric, algebraic 50th Birthday the impact of his work throughout The Geometry of the and algorithmic points of view, how the mathematical community Word Problem for Finitely filling functions interact is discussed, 2006. XVIII, 643 p. 19 illus. Hardcover Generated Groups and applications to nilpotent groups, EUR 108.– / CHF 172.– hyperbolic groups and asymptotic ISBN 978-0-8176-4471-0 2007. Approx. 200 p. Softcover cones are given. 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