The Foundations of Differential Geometry

by Oswald Veblen

This book contains a set of axioms for differential geometry and develops their consequences up to a point where a more advanced book might reasonably begin. Analytical operations with co-ordinate systems are continually used in differential geometry, a typical process being to 'choose a co-ordinate system such that ...' It is therefore natural to state the axioms in terms of an undefined class of 'allowable' co-ordinate systems, and to deduce the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521066743
• ISBN13: 9780521066747
• Release Date: January 1932
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"