Includes exercises throughout chapters, bibliographical references at chapter ends, bibliographical references for preface (pages 201-202), and indexes.

There is a long tradition of geometric questions requiring algebra for their answers. The oldest go back to the Greeks, such as "Can we construct a square with the same area as that of a given disk?" many of which were not resolved until mathematicians concluded that [lowercase Greek]Pi is transcendental. There are many questions that appear to focus on geometry, but which require algebra to solve. This book looks at the algebra used to solve tiling and related problems. One purpose of the text is to bring abstract algebra ideas down to earth by applying them in geometric settings. The text is intended for undergraduate and graduate students with at least a semester of algebra, and experienced mathematicians. For both beginners and experts, there are questions that have not yet been answered, which have been labeled "Problems" to distinguish them from the exercises.

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