Differential Geometry
Published on 19. April 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-0-471-50403-0 (ISBN)
Description
This classic work is now available in an unabridged paperback edition. Stoker makes this fertile branch of mathematics accessible to the nonspecialist by the use of three different notations: vector algebra and calculus, tensor calculus, and the notation devised by Cartan, which employs invariant differential forms as elements in an algebra due to Grassman, combined with an operation called exterior differentiation. Assumed are a passing acquaintance with linear algebra and the basic elements of analysis.
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Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
691 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-50403-0 (9780471504030)
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J. J. Stoker
Differential Geometry
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01/1969
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James J Stoker was an American applied mathematician and engineer. He was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is considered one of the founders of the institute, Courant and Friedrichs being the others. Stoker is known for his work in differential geometry and theory of water waves.
Content
Chapter I Operations with Vectors.
Chapter II Plane Curves.
Chapter III Space Curves.
Chapter IV The Basic Elements of Surface Theory.
Chapter V Some Special Surfaces.
Chapter VI The Partial Differential Equations of SurfaceTheory.
Chapter VII Inner Differential Geometry in the Small from theExtrinsic Point of View.
Chapter VIII Differential Geometry in the Large.
Chapter IX Intrinsic Diferential Geometry of Manifolds.Relativity.
Chapter X The Wedge Product and the Exterior Derivative ofDifferential Forms, with Applications to Surface Theory.
Appendix A Tensor Algebra in Affine, Euclidean, and MinkowskiSpaces.
Appendix B Differential Equations.
Bibliography.
Index.
Chapter II Plane Curves.
Chapter III Space Curves.
Chapter IV The Basic Elements of Surface Theory.
Chapter V Some Special Surfaces.
Chapter VI The Partial Differential Equations of SurfaceTheory.
Chapter VII Inner Differential Geometry in the Small from theExtrinsic Point of View.
Chapter VIII Differential Geometry in the Large.
Chapter IX Intrinsic Diferential Geometry of Manifolds.Relativity.
Chapter X The Wedge Product and the Exterior Derivative ofDifferential Forms, with Applications to Surface Theory.
Appendix A Tensor Algebra in Affine, Euclidean, and MinkowskiSpaces.
Appendix B Differential Equations.
Bibliography.
Index.