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This book is an extended version of the notes of my lecture course given at ETH in spring 1999. The course was intended as an introduction to combinatorial torsions and their relations to the famous Seiberg-Witten invariants. Torsions were introduced...

This book treats that part of Riemannian geometry related to more classical topics in a very original, clear and solid style. The author successfully combines the co-ordinate and invariant approaches to differential geometry, giving the reader tools for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783540074021Author Joe DiestelFormat PaperbackPage Count 289Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473331853Author John S ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint White PressPublisher White PressWeight(grams) 318g

This unique book's subject is meanders (connected, oriented, non-self-intersecting planar curves intersecting the horizontal line transversely) in the context of dynamical systems. By interpreting the transverse intersection points as vertices and the...

For over two millennia, the complexities of elementary geometry have challenged learners, burdened by the intricacies of auxiliary graphics and cumbersome calculations. Inspired by Leibniz's query, this book introduces a groundbreaking method: point...

This volume collects papers based on talks given at the conference “Geometrias'19: Polyhedra and Beyond”, held in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto between September 5-7, 2019 in Portugal. These papers explore the conference’s theme from...

Geometry is often seen as one of the most beautiful aspects of mathematics. This beauty is probably a result of the fact that one can 'see' this aspect of mathematics. Most people are exposed to the very basic elements of geometry throughout their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783731500780Author Marcus BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Karlsruher Institut Fur TechnologiePublisher Karlsruher Institut Fur...

For over two millennia, the complexities of elementary geometry have challenged learners, burdened by the intricacies of auxiliary graphics and cumbersome calculations. Inspired by Leibniz's query, this book introduces a groundbreaking method: point...

This classic book is based on lectures given by the author at the University of Chicago in 1956. The topics covered include, in particular, recurrence, the ergodic theorems, and a general discussion of ergodicity and mixing properties. There is also a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389204766Author S K GoyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 655Imprint Arihant PublicationPublisher Arihant Publication

A very clear account of the subject from the viewpoints of elementary geometry, Riemannian geometry and group theory - a book with no rival in the literature. Mostly accessible to first-year students in mathematics, the book also includes very recent...

Peter Dembowski was born in Berlin on April 1, 1928. After studying mathematics at the University of Frankfurt of Main, he pursued his graduate studies at Brown Unviersity and the University of Illinois, mainly with R. Baer. Dembowski returned to...

This book offers an alternative proof of the Bestvina-Feighn combination theorem for trees of hyperbolic spaces and describes uniform quasigeodesics in such spaces. As one of the applications of their description of uniform quasigeodesics, the authors...

Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789393971715Author W H BesantFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Hawk PressPublisher Hawk PressWeight(grams) 367g

Pluripotential theory is a very powerful tool in geometry, complex analysis and dynamics. This volume brings together the lectures held at the 2011 CIME session on "pluripotential theory" in Cetraro, Italy. This CIME course focused on complex...

Computational synthetic geometry deals with methods for realizing abstract geometric objects in concrete vector spaces. This research monograph considers a large class of problems from convexity and discrete geometry including constructing convex...

The aim of this book is the classification of symplectic amalgams - structures which are intimately related to the finite simple groups. In all there sixteen infinite families of symplectic amalgams together with 62 more exotic examples. The...

This book treats that part of Riemannian geometry related to more classical topics in a very original, clear and solid style. The author successfully combines the co-ordinate and invariant approaches to differential geometry, giving the reader tools for...

This account of deformation theory in classical algebraic geometry over an algebraically closed field presents for the first time some results previously scattered in the literature, with proofs that are relatively little known, yet relevant to algebraic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425551445Author Adrien Marie LegendreFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of Michigan LibraryPublisher University of Michigan...

This book expresses the full understanding of Weyl's formula for the volume of a tube, its roots and its implications. Historical notes and Mathematica drawings have been added to this revised second edition. From the reviews: "Will do much to make...

The featured review of the AMS describes the author's earlier work in the field of approach spaces as, 'A landmark in the history of general topology'. In this book, the author has expanded this study further and taken it in a new and exciting direction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603860086Author David HilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 181g

This volume is a collection of research surveys on the Distance Geometry Problem (DGP) and its applications. It will be divided into three parts: Theory, Methods and Applications. Each part will contain at least one survey and several research papers...

Sir Isaac Newton's philosophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica'(the Principia) contains a prose-style mixture of geometric and limit reasoning that has often been viewed as logically vague. In A Combination of Geometry Theorem Proving and Nonstandard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798215174746Author Simone MalacridaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Simone MalacridaPublisher Simone MalacridaWeight(grams) 86g

This book presents the original proof of Gromov's compactness theorem for pseudo-holomorphic curves in detail. Local properties of pseudo-holomorphic curves are investigated and proved from a geometric viewpoint. Properties of particular interest are...

Euclid presents the essential of mathematics in a manner which has set a high standard for more than 2000 years. This book, an explanation of the nature of mathematics from its most important early source, is for all lovers of mathematics with a solid...

Symplectic geometry has its origins as a geometric language for classical mechanics. But it has recently exploded into an independent field interconnected with many other areas of mathematics and physics. The goal of the IAS/Park City Mathematics...

For textual studies relating to the ancient mathematical corpus the efforts by the Danish philologist, 1. L. Heiberg (1854-1928), are especially significant. Beginning with his doctoral dissertation, Quaestiones Archimedeae (Copen hagen, 1879), Heiberg...

This book presents the classical theory of curves in the plane and three-dimensional space, and the classical theory of surfaces in three-dimensional space. It pays particular attention to the historical development of the theory and the preliminary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639166804Author Rania AmerFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783540054672Author N.H. KuiperFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin...

This is the first exposition of the quantization theory of singular symplectic (Marsden-Weinstein) quotients and their applications to physics. The reader will acquire an introduction to the various techniques used in this area, as well as an overview of...

This volume consists of those papers presented at the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry '98. The conference was held 9-12 - cember 1998 at Tokai University in Tokyo. Close to a hundred participants from 10 countries participated...

Generalized Polygons is the first book to cover, in a coherent manner, the theory of polygons from scratch. In particular, it fills elementary gaps in the literature and gives an up-to-date account of current research in this area, including most proofs,...