《A course in differential geometry》是2000年世界圖書出版公司出版的圖書。
基本介紹
- 外文名：A course in differential geometry
- 作者：[德]Wilhelm Klingenberg
- 出版時間：2000年12月1日
- 出版社：世界圖書出版公司
- 頁數：178 頁
- ISBN：9787506200813
- 開本：24 開
- 裝幀：平裝
This English edition could serve as a text for a first year graduatc course on differential geometry， as did for a long time the Chicago Notes of Chern mentioned in the Preface to the German Edition. Suitable references for ordinary differential equations arc Hurewicz， W. Lectures on ordinary differential equations. MIT Press， Cambridge， Mass.， 1958， and for the topology of surfaces： Massey， Algebraic Topology， Springer-Verlag， New York， 1977.
Upon David Hoffman fell the difficult task of transforming the tightly constructed German text into one which would mesh well with the more relaxed format of the Graduate Texts in Mathematics series. There are some elaborations and several new figures have been added. I trust that the merits of the German edition have survived whereas at the same time the efforts of David helped to elucidate the general conception of the Course where we tried to put Geometry before Formalism without giving up mathematical rigour.
I wish to thank David for his work and his enthusiasm during the whole period of our collaboration. At the same time I would like to commend the editors of Springer-Verlag for their patience and good advice.
