A crash course on Kleinian groups;: Lectures given at a special session at the January 1974 meeting of the American Mathematical Society at San Francisco
What is a Kleinian group?.- Quasiconformal mappings and uniformization.- Automorphic forms and eichler cohomology.- Deformation spaces.- Metrics on teichmuller space.- Moduli of riemann surfaces.- Good and bad kleinian groups.- Kleinian groups and 3-dimensional topology a survey.- The curvature of teichmuller space.- Some unsolved problems.