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Chern, Shiing-Shen

Lectures on differential geometry - Singapore World Scientific 2022 - x, 356 p - Series on university mathematics 1 .

Differentiable manifolds
Multilinear algebra
Exterior differential calculus
Connections
Riemmannian geometry
Lie groups and moving frames
Complex manifolds
Finsler geometry
Historical notes
Differential geometry and theoretical physics

This is a translation of an introductory text based on a lecture series delivered by differential geometer, Professor S.S. Chern in Beijing University in 1980. This edition includes a new chapter on Finsler geometry and a new appendix on the history and developments of differential geometry.


Translated from the Chinese

ISBN: 9781944659899 (PB)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Differential geometry
Differentialgeometrie

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 514.7 / CHE