Modern Geometry: Methods and Applications
Subtitle: The Geometry of Surfaces, Transformation Groups, and Fields
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Published: December 31, 1984
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9783540908722
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).