Invariants of quadratic differential forms
By: Joseph Edmund Wright
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Mineola, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780486497686
Subjects: Differential forms
Description: "This classic monograph by a mathematician affiliated with Trinity College, Cambridge, offers a brief account of the invariant theory connected with a single quadratic differential form. A historical overview is followed by considerations of the methods of Christoffel and Lie as well as Maschke's symbolic method and explorations of geometrical and dynamical methods. 1960 edition"--
Notes: "An unabridged republication of the work originally published by Hafner Publishing Co., New York, in 1960. The 1960 edition was itself a republication of the work originally published as Volume 9 in the series, 'Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics' by Cambridge University Press, in 1908."