Metric Spaces of Non-Positive Curvature (Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9783540643241
Subjects: Geometry; Groups & group theory; Probability & statistics; Topology; Metric spaces; Theory Of Groups; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Probability & Statistics - General; Geometry - General; Group Theory; Topology - General; Mathematics / Geometry / General; Mathematics / Topology; Mathematics-Group Theory; Mathematics-Topology - General; Non-positive curvature; complexes of groups; geodesics; Geometry, Differential
First sentence: The fundamental concept with which we shall be concerned throughout this book is that of distance.