Download or read book The Geometry of the Word Problem for Finitely Generated Groups written by Noel Brady and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of the word problem are in group theory, decidability and complexity. But through the vision of M. Gromov and the language of filling functions, the topic now impacts the world of large-scale geometry. This book contains accounts of many recent developments in Geometric Group Theory and shows the interaction between the word problem and geometry continues to be a central theme. It contains many figures, numerous exercises and open questions.