Riemannian Geometry: A Beginners Guide, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9781568814711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 168 str.

Frank Morgan

Opis

Suitable as a tool for self-study, this title can also be used as a basic text for undergraduate courses in differential geometry. It includes examples within the exercises and features material, ranging from isoperimetric problems to comments on Einstein's original paper on relativity theory.

Recenzje

… an intuitive approach to Riemannian geometry based on surfaces in n-dimensional Euclidean spaces. … This revision of the second edition includes many interesting exercises and solutions to selected exercises. … The book is warmly recommended to specialists in mathematics, physicists and especially to PhD students interested in this topic.
—Jan Kurek, Zentralblatt MATH 1234

O autorze

Frank Morgan is the Atwell Professor of Mathematics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.