Riemannian Geometry / / Luther Pfahler Eisenhart.
In his classic work of geometry, Euclid focused on the properties of flat surfaces. In the age of exploration, mapmakers such as Mercator had to concern themselves with the properties of spherical surfaces. The study of curved surfaces, or non-Euclidean geometry, flowered in the late nineteenth cent...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©1950 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics and Physics ;
51 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- Chapter I. Tensor analysis
- Chapter II. Introduction of a metric
- Chapter III. Orthogonal ennuples
- Chapter IV. The geometry of sub-spaces
- Chapter V. Sub-spaces of a flat space
- Chapter VI. Groups of motions
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index