Modern Geometry: Methods and Applications
Subtitle: The Geometry and Topology of Manifolds
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Published: December 31, 1985
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9783540961628
First sentence: The concept of a manifold is in essence a generalization of the idea, first formulated in mathematical terms by Gauss, underlying the usual procedure used in cartography (i.e. the drawing of maps of the earth's surface, or portions of it).