Geometric Mechanics on Riemannian Manifolds
Subtitle: Applications to Partial Differential Equations (Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780817643546
Subjects: Calculus & mathematical analysis; Mathematical Analysis; Geometry - Analytic; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Riemannian manifolds; Geometry - Differential; Mathematics / Geometry / Differential; Differential equations, Partia; Applied; Global Riemannian geometry; Mechanics, Analytic
First sentence: Roughly speaking, a manifold is essentially a space that is locally similar to the Euclidean space.