Modern Geometry. Methods and Applications: Part 2
Subtitle: The Geometry and Topology of Manifolds (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
Contributors: R.G. Burns (Translator)
Publisher: Springer
Published: August 5, 1985
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780387961620
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).