THE SHAPE OF SPACE

9. Some References
  1. Circles in the Sky, Detecting the Shape of the Universe, I. Peterson, Science News, 153(8), 123-125. The online version includes pictures not in the printed article.
  2. The Mathematics of Three Dimensional Manifolds, W. Thurston and J. Weeks, Scientific American, July 1984, 108-120.
  3. The Shape of Space: How to Visualize Surfaces and Three-Dimensional Manifolds, by Jeffrey Weeks, Monographs and Textbooks in Pure and Applied Mathematics #96, 1985, Marcel Dekker, New York.
  4. The Shape of Space, (video) by The Geometry Center, 1995. Supplemental information is available on the Geometry Center's homepage.
  5. The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) homepage.
  6. The Microwave Anisotropy Satellite (MAP) homepage.
  7. The Planck Explorer satellite homepage.
  8. J.P. Luminet, G.D. Starkman, and J.R. Weeks (1999). Is Space Finite? Scientific American, April 1999, 90-97.
For additional (more technical) references, see the references section of my Visualizing the Big Bang webpage.

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