Modern Geometry-- Methods and Applications: Part II: The Geometry and Topology of Manifolds

by A.T. Fomenko and B.A. Dubrovin

Up until recently, Riemannian geometry and basic topology were not included, even by departments or faculties of mathematics, as compulsory subjects in a university-level mathematical education. The standard courses in the classical differential geometry of curves and surfaces which were given instead (and still are given in some places) have come gradually to be viewed as anachronisms. However, there has been hitherto no unanimous agreement as to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387961623
• ISBN13: 9780387961620
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"