Geometry from a Differentiable Viewpoint - Softcover

McCleary, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521133114 ISBN 13: 9780521133111

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

A thoroughly revised second edition of a textbook for a first course in differential/modern geometry that introduces methods within a historical context.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521133114
• ISBN 13: 9780521133111
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 374