TY - CHAP AU - Montesinos Amilibia, José María A4 - Harper, John R. A4 - Mandelbaum, Richard PY - 1985 SN - 0-8218-5039-3 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/65466 AB - The author presents various ideas, proofs, constructions and tricks connected with branched coverings of 3-manifolds. After an introductory section on 2-fold branched coverings of S3 the main theme of 3-fold irregular coverings is introduced. A... LA - eng M2 - 157 PB - American Mathematical Society KW - 3-manifolds as branched coverings of the 3-sphere KW - surfaces as branched covers of S 2 KW - Dehn surgery KW - simple covers KW - coloured links KW - Poincaré conjecture KW - parallelizable TI - Lectures on 3-fold simple coverings and 3-manifolds TY - book part ER -