Overview: Contains all of the material from the previous book, Buildings by K. S. Brown (a short, friendly, elementary introduction to the theory of buildings), and substantially revised, updated, new material.This text started out as a revised version of Buildings by the second-named author [53], but it has grown into a much more voluminous book. The earlier book was intended to give a short, friendly, elementary introduction to theory, accessible to readers with a minimal background.Moreover, it approached buildings from only one point of view, sometimes called the “old-fashioned” approach:
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