Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint 2nd Edition Paperback

McCleary, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521133114 ISBN 13: 9780521133111

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

This text, for a first course in differential or modern geometry, introduces methods within a historical context that is familiar to students from high school. The thoroughly revised second edition has been reorganized for greater clarity and includes numerous new exercises and topics such as Euclid's geometry of space.

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Review of the first edition: '... an unusual and interesting account of two subjects and their close historical interrelation.' The Mathematical Gazette

'... the author has succeeded in making differential geometry an approachable subject for advanced undergraduates.' Andrej Bucki, Mathematical Reviews

Biografía del autor:

John McCleary is Professor of Mathematics at Vassar College on the Elizabeth Stillman Williams Chair. His research interests lie at the boundary between geometry and topology, especially where algebraic topology plays a role. His papers on topology have appeared in Inventiones Mathematicae, the American Journal of Mathematics and other journals, and he has written expository papers that have appeared in American Mathematical Monthly. He is also interested in the history of mathematics, especially the history of geometry in the nineteenth century and of topology in the twentieth century. He is the author of A User's Guide to Spectral Sequences and A First Course in Topology: Continuity and Dimension, and he has edited proceedings in topology and in history, as well as a volume of the collected works of John Milnor. He has been a visitor to the mathematics institutes in Goettingen, Strasbourg and Cambridge, and to MSRI in Berkeley.