The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal

Introduces uniform constructions of most of the known compactifications of symmetric and locally symmetric spaces, with emphasis on their geometric and topologi

The new edition of this celebrated and long-unavailable book preserves the original book's content and structure and its unrivalled presentation of a universal

The concept of symmetric space is of central importance in many branches of mathematics. Compactifications of these spaces have been studied from the points of

The articles in this volume are invited papers from the Marcus Wallenberg symposium and focus on research topics that bridge the gap between analysis, geometry,