Differential geometry /

This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. Stoker makes this fertile branch of mathematics accessible to the nonspecialist by the use of three different notations: vector algebra and calculus, tensor calculus, and the notation devised by Cartan, which employs invariant di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stoker, J. J. (James Johnston), 1905-1992
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Wiley-Interscience, 1989, ©1969.
Series:Pure and applied mathematics (John Wiley & Sons) ; v. 20.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Operations with Vectors
  • Plane Curves
  • Space Curves
  • The Basic Elements of Surface Theory
  • Some Special Surfaces
  • The Partial Differential Equations of Surface Theory
  • Inner Differential Geometry in the Small from the Extrinsic Point of View
  • Differential Geometry in the Large
  • Intrinsic Differential Geometry of Manifolds. Relativity
  • The Wedge Product and the Exterior Derivative of Differential Forms, with Applications to Surface Theory
  • Appendix A: Tensor Algebra in Affine, Euclidean, and Minkowski Spaces
  • Appendix B: Differential Equations
  • Bibliography
  • Index.