Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings

Name: Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings
Brand: Springer International Publishing
SKU: 9783319863429
Price: 143.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Wells, Jr., Raymond O.

Differential and complex geometry are two central areas of mathematics with a long and intertwined history. This book, the first to provide a unified historical perspective of both subjects, explores their origins and developments from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Providing a detailed examination of the seminal contributions to differential and complex geometry up to the twentieth-century embedding theorems, this monograph includes valuable excerpts from the original documents, including works of Descartes, Fermat, Newton, Euler, Huygens, Gauss, Riemann, Abel, and Nash.

Suitable for beginning graduate students interested in differential, algebraic or complex geometry, this book will also appeal to more experienced readers.