Buildings are highly structured, geometric objects, primarily used in the finer study of the groups that act upon them. In Buildings and Classical Groups, the a

This book is an elementary self-contained introduction to some constructions of representation theory and related topics of differential geometry and analysis.

Introduction to buildings and their geometries with emphasis on model theoretic constructions, covering recent developments.

These notes are a slightly revised and extended version of mim- graphed notes written on the occasion of a seminar on buildings and BN-pairs held at Oberwolfach