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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCleary, John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spherical geometry
  • Euclid
  • The theory of parallels
  • Non-Euclidean geometry
  • Curves in the plane
  • Curves in space
  • Surfaces
  • Map projections
  • Curvature for surfaces
  • Metric equivalence of surfaces
  • Geodesics
  • The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
  • Constant-curvature surfaces
  • Abstract surfaces
  • Modeling the non-Euclidean plane.