Topics in differential geometry
โ Scribed by Shiing-Shen Chern
- Book ID
- 127447425
- Publisher
- The Institute for Advanced Study
- Year
- 1951
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 5 MB
- Category
- Library
- ASIN
- B0007DWX8M
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
This book treats the fundamentals of differential geometry: manifolds, flows, Lie groups and their actions, invariant theory, differential forms and de Rham cohomology, bundles and connections, Riemann manifolds, isometric actions, and symplectic and Poisson geometry. The layout of the material stre
This introductory text develops the geometry of n-dimensional oriented surfaces in Rn+1. By viewing such surfaces as level sets of smooth functions, the author is able to introduce global ideas early without the need for preliminary chapters developing sophisticated machinery. the calculus of vector