A First Course in Geometric Topology and Differential Geometry:
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Main Author: Bloch, Ethan D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA Birkhäuser Boston 1997
Series:Modern Birkhäuser Classics
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:This textis anintroduction togeometric topology anddifferentialgeometry via the study of surfaces, and more generally servestointroduce the student to the relation of the modem axiomatic approach in mathematics to geometric intu­ ition. The idea of combining geometry and topology in a text ,of iscourse,not new;the present text attempts to make such a combination of subjects accessi­ bletothejunior/seniorlevelmathematics majoratauniversityorcollegeinthe UnitedStates . Though someofthedeepconnections betweenthetopology and geometry of manifolds can only bedealt withusing more advancedtechniques thanthose presented here, wedoreachtheclassical Gauss -BonnetTheorem ­ a model theorem for the relation of topology andgeometry- attheend of the book. The notion of a surface is the unifyingread th of the text. Our treatment of point set topology is brief and restricted to subsets of Euclidean spaces; the discussion of topological surfaces is geometric rather than algebraic ; the treatment of differential geometry is classical, treating surfaces JR3. in The goal of the book is to reach a number of intuitively appealing definitions and theorems concerning surfaces in the topological, polyhedral and smooth. cases Some of the goodies aimed at are the classification of compact surfaces, the Gauss-BonnetTheorem(polyhedral and smooth) and the geodesic nature of length-minimizingcurves on surfaces. Only those definitions and methods needed for these ends are developed . In order to keep the discussion at a concrete level, we avoid treating a number of technicalities such as abstract topological spaces, abstract simplicial complexes and tensors
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XII, 421 p)
ISBN:9780817681227
9780817681210
ISSN:2197-1803
DOI:10.1007/978-0-8176-8122-7

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