Geometry from a differentiable viewpoint /
"The development of geometry from Euclid to Euler to Lobachevsky, Bolyai, Gauss, and Riemann is a story that is often broken into parts - axiomatic geometry, non-Euclidean geometry, and differential geometry. This poses a problem for undergraduates: Which part is geometry? What is the big pictu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Part I. Prelude and Themes: Synthetic Methods and Results: 1. Spherical geometry; 2. Euclid; 3. The theory of parallels; 4. Non-Euclidean geometry; Part II. Development: Differential Geometry: 5. Curves in the plane; 6. Curves in space; 7. Surfaces; 8. Curvature for surfaces; 9. Metric equivalence of surfaces; 10. Geodesics; 11. The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem; 12. Constant-curvature surfaces; Part III. Recapitulation and Coda: 13. Abstract surfaces; 14. Modeling the non-Euclidean plane; 15. Epilogue: where from here?.