Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
Marcel Berger
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Description for Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
Hardcover. This inviting and visually rich book is the latest work of well known mathematician Marcel Berger. He aims to demonstrate to readers the renewed spirit of geometry, and reveals that even so-called "elementary" geometry is very much alive. Translator(s): Senechal, Lester. Num Pages: 831 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBMP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 51. Weight in Grams: 1374.
Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts ... Read more
Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
1374g
Number of Pages
831
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540709961
SKU
V9783540709961
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99-15
About Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger is Ancien Professeur of the University of Paris and emeritus director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), from 1979 to 1981 he was president of the French Mathematical Society and from 1985 to 1994 director of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette.
Reviews for Geometry Revealed: A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry
It is a must own book for anyone serious about developing a conceptual understanding of the interconnected web of modern geometry and the ever-growing intertwining of geometry with practically all other branches of mathematics. ... It is remarkable for a book to provide such a detailed glimpse of contemporary geometry via well developed discussions of so many questions of current ... Read more