Geometry and Topology of Surfaces
Sebastian Baader
Universität Bern, Switzerland

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| Frontmatter, Dedication, AcknowledgmentsDownload pp. i–x | |
| ContentsDownload p. ix | |
| IntroductionDownload pp. 1–2 | |
| 1 | Étude on the flat case: pp. 3–6 |
| 2 | Plane hyperbolic geometrypp. 7–12 |
| 3 | Simple closed geodesics and systolespp. 13–18 |
| 4 | Fenchel–Nielsen coordinates pp. 19–24 |
| 5 | Dehn twistspp. 25–30 |
| 6 | Normal generators for mapping class groups pp. 31–36 |
| 7 | Measured foliations pp. 37–44 |
| 8 | The -theorem for measured foliationspp. 45–48 |
| 9 | Compactification of Teichmüller space pp. 49–54 |
| 10 | Classification of mapping classes pp. 55–60 |
| 11 | Perron–Frobenius theorypp. 61–64 |
| 12 | Pseudo-Anosov maps with small stretch factor pp. 65–70 |
| Bibliography pp. 71–74 | |
| Index pp. 75–76 |