Differential Geometry for Physicists and Mathematicians : Moving Frames and Differential Forms : from Euclid Past Riemann

I. Introduction. 1. Orientations -- II. Tools. 2. Differential forms -- 3. Vector spaces and tensor products -- 4. Exterior differentiation -- III. Two Klein geometries. 5. Affine Klein geometry -- 6. Euclidean Klein geometry -- IV. Cartan connections. 7. Generalized geometry made simple -- 8. Affine connections -- 9. Euclidean connections -- 10. Riemannian spaces and pseudo-spaces -- V. The future? 11. Extensions of Cartan -- 12. Understand the past to imagine the future -- 13. A book of farewells

• | Author: José G. Vargas
• | Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Incorporated
• | Publication Date: Apr 07, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 293 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 981456639X
• | ISBN-13: 9789814566391