Differential geometry. Translated from the Russian by Olga Sipacheva (Q2078800)

One may wonder why there are so many books on differential geometry and why new ones appeared again and again. The answer is more than simple -- the authors perspectives are different. That of the present book is Riemannian geometry. Most of the important notion in this discipline are considered first in some detail in the two dimensional case offered by classical differential geometry with the clear idea that this will facilitate their study in higher dimensions. Otherwise, the topics are as usual -- plane and space curves, surfaces and their models as hypersurfaces in Euclidean spaces, connections and curvatures and the interrelation with Lie groups theory. All chapters are supplemented with solutions of the problems scattered throughout the text. Designed as a text for a lecture course on the subject, it is perfect and can be recommended for students interested in this classical field.