Global differential geometry
S. S. Chern, editor ; contributors: Lamberto Cesari ... [et al.].
[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, 1989.
ii, 354 págs. ; 23 cm.
Serie: Studies in mathematics ; v. 27
ISBN: 0883851296
"Essentially a 2nd edition of the MAA Studies v. 4 entitled Global geometry and analysis (1967) ... Most of the original chapters have been revised and updated ... Four new chapters are included."
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Reseña: MathSciNet, 90d:53003
Contenido
- Vector bundles with a connection / Shiing-shen Chern
- Differential forms / Harley Flanders
- Minimal surfaces in $R3$ / Robert Osserman
- Curves and surfaces in Euclidean space / S. S. Chern
- On conjugate and cut loci / Shoshichi Kobayashi
- Riemannian comparison constructions / Hermann Karcher
- Manifolds of nonpositive curvature / Patrick Eberlein
- What is analysis in the large? / Marston Morse [de Amer. Math. Monthly 49 (1942), p. 358-364]
- Surface area / Lamberto Cesari
- Integral geometry / L. A. Santalo.