============================================================================= 6th Conference on 6eme Colloque Formal Power Series S\'eries Formelles and Algebraic Combinatorics et Combinatoire Alg\'ebrique FPSAC '94 SFCA '94 DIMACS DIMACS May 23-27, 1994 23-27 mai 1994 ============================================================================= SELECTED READINGS SELECTIONS BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES recommended by the recommend\'ees par les invited speakers conf\'erenciers invit\'es Ruth CHARNEY, ``Metric Geometry: Connections with Combinatorics'' Metric geometry and hyperbolic groups: 1. M. Gromov, Hyperbolic groups, in "Essays in Group Theory", edited by S. Gersten. MSRI Publications #8, Springer-Verlag 1987. 2. E. Ghys and P. de la Harpe, editors, "Sur les Groupes Hyperboliques de Mikhael Gromov", Progress in Math #83, Birkhauser 1990. 3. E. Ghys, A. Haefliger, and A. Verjovsky, editors, "Group Theory from a Geometrical Viewpoint" (especially articles by H. Short, F. Paulin, and M. Bridson), World Scientific 1991. Euler characteristics: 4. R. Stanley, A survey of Eulerian posets, preprint 1993. 5. R. Charney and M. Davis, The Euler characteristic of a nonpositively curved, piecewise Euclidean manifold, Ohio State Mathematical Research Institute Preprint 1993. Hyperplane arrangements: 6. P. Orlick and H. Terao, "Arrangements of Hyperplanes", Springer- Verlag 1992. 7. R. Charney and M. Davis, The K(\pi,1)-problem for hyperplane complements associated to infinite reflection groups, Ohio State Mathematical Research Institute Preprint 1993.