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Author / Creator:Carmo, Manfredo Perdigão do
Uniform title:Geometria riemanniana. English
Imprint:Boston : Birkhäuser, c1992.
Description:300 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language:English
Series:Mathematics. Theory and applications
Mathematics (Boston, Mass.)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1295768
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ISBN:0817634908 (acid-free)
Notes:Translation of: Geometria riemanniana.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the 1st edition
  • Preface to the 2nd edition
  • Preface to the English edition
  • How to use this book
  • 0. Differentiable Manifolds
  • 1. Riemannian Metrics
  • 2. Affine Connections
  • Riemannian Connections
  • 3. Geodesics
  • Convex Neighborhoods
  • 4. Curvature
  • 5. Jacobi Fields
  • 6. Isometric Immersions
  • 7. Complete Manifolds
  • Hopf-Rinow and Hadamard Theorems
  • 8. Spaces of Constant Curvature
  • 9. Variations of Energy
  • 10. The Rauch Comparison Theorem
  • 11. The Morse Index Theorem
  • 12. The Fundamental Group of Manifolds of Negative Curvature
  • 13. The Sphere Theorem
  • References
  • Index