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OverviewElie Cartan's book ""Geometry of Riemannian Manifolds"" (1928) was one of the best introductions to his methods. It was based on lectures given by the author at the Sorbonne in the academic year 1925-26. A modernized and extensively augmented edition appeared in 1946 (2nd printing, 1951; 3rd printing, 1988). Cartan's lectures in 1926-27 were different - he introduced exterior forms at the very beginning and used orthogonal frames throughout to investigate the geometry of Riemannian manifolds. In this course, he solved a series of problems in Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces, as well as a series of variational problems on geodesics. The lectures were translated into Russian in the book ""Riemannian Geometry in an Orthogonal Frame"" (1960). This book has many innovations, such as the notion of intrinsic normal differentiation and the Gaussian torsion of a submanifold in a Euclidean multidimensional space or in a space of constant curvature, an affine connection defined in a normal fibre bundle of a submanifold, and so on. This book was available neither in English nor in French. It has now been translated into English by Vladislav V. Goldberg, currently Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA, who edited the Russian edition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Vladislav V Goldberg (New Jersey Inst Of Tech, Usa) , Shiing-shen Chern (Nankai Univ, China) , Vladislav V. GoldbergPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.00cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9789810247478ISBN 10: 9810247478 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 11 December 2001 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |