Geometry revealed
Subtitle: a Jacob's ladder to modern higher geometry
By: Marcel Berger
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heidelberg; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 831
ISBN-13: 9783540709961; 9783540709978
Subjects: Differential Geometry
Other titles: Jacob's ladder to modern higher geometry
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the German.
Table of contents: title: Points and lines in the plane; title: Circles and spheres; title: The sphere by itself: can we distribute points on it evenly?; title: Conics and quadrics; title: Plane curves; title: Smooth surfaces; title: Convexity and convex sets; title: Polygons, polyhedra, polytopes; title: Lattices, packings and tilings in the plane; title: Lattices and packings in higher dimensions; title: Geometry and dynamics I: billiards; title: Geometry and dynamics II: geodesic flow on a surface.