Geometrie

Projektive Geometrie und Cayley-Klein Geometrien der Ebene

Gerhard Kowol

Der Autor zeigt am Beispiel der ebenen reellen und komplexen projektiven Geometrie und der davon abgeleiteten Cayley-Klein-Geometrien, dass das Mathematisieren eine Bedeutung hat, die weit über d...

Algebraic Topology

<P>The 2007 Abel Symposium took place at the University of Oslo in August 2007.&nbsp; The goal of the symposium was to bring together mathematicians whose research efforts have led to re...

Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups

Michael Kapovich

<P><EM>Hyperbolic Manifolds and Discrete Groups</EM> is at the crossroads of several branches of mathematics: hyperbolic geometry, discrete groups, 3-dimensional topology, geomet...

Serious Fun with Flexagons

L.P. Pook

<P>A flexagon is a motion structure that has the appearance of a ring of hinged polygons. It can be flexed to display different pairs of faces, usually in cyclic order. Flexagons can be appr...

Families of Conformally Covariant Differential Operators, Q-Curvature and Holography

Andreas Juhl

Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany

Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Ge...

Encyclopedia of Distances

Elena Deza / Michel Marie Deza

<P>Distance metrics and distances have become an essential tool in many areas of pure and applied Mathematics, and this encyclopedia is the first one to treat the subject in full.</P>&...

Eichfeldtheorie

Helga Baum

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung in die Differentialgeometrie auf Faserbündeln. Nach einem Kapitel über Lie-Gruppen und homogene Räume werden lokal-triviale Faserungen, insbesondere die ...

Pythagoras' Revenge

Arturo Sangalli

Visual Symmetry

Hargittai Magdolna Hargittai

Unitals in Projective Planes

Susan Barwick / Gary Ebert

This book is a monograph on unitals embedded in ?nite projective planes. Unitals are an interesting structure found in square order projective planes, and numerous research articles constructing a...

Mathematician's Lament

Paul Lockhart

"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning EditionA brilliant research mathematician who has devoted h...

Mind and Nature

Hermann Weyl

Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century's most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also...

Stable Homotopy Around the Arf-Kervaire Invariant

Victor P. Snaith

Were I to take an iron gun, And ?re it o? towards the sun; I grant ‘twould reach its mark at last, But not till many years had passed. But should that bullet change its force, And to the planets...

Metric Foliations and Curvature

Gerard Walschap / Detlef Gromoll

<P>Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text docum...

Grundkurs Topologie

Gerd Laures / Markus Szymik

Die Topologie beschäftigt sich mit den qualitativen Eigenschaften geometrischer Objekte. Ihr Begriffsapparat ist so mächtig, dass kaum eine mathematische Struktur nicht mit Gewinn topologisiert ...

Semiparallel Submanifolds in Space Forms

Ülo Lumiste

<P>Quite simply, this book offers the most comprehensive survey to date of the theory of semiparallel submanifolds. It begins with the necessary background material, detailing symmetric and ...

Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry

<P>This commemorative book contains the 28 major articles that appeared in the 2008 Twentieth Anniversary Issue of the journal <EM>Discrete &amp; Computational Geometry</EM>,...

Are Science And Mathematics Socially Constructed? A Mathematician Encounters Postmodern Interpretations Of Science

Brown Richard C Brown

Leitfaden Geometrie

Susanne Müller-Philipp / Hans-Joachim Gorski

Der Leitfaden Geometrie gibt für Studierende der Primarstufe oder des Sekundarbereichs I eine Einführung in die Teilgebiete Topologie, Körper, euklidische Geometrie, darstellende Geometrie, Axi...