scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1324118

Publication date 15 August 1999

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry (53-01) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Differentiable manifolds, foundations (58A05)

Review text

[For Part I, see the preceding review Zbl 0924.53001.] The textbook under review introduces a reader to Riemannian geometry. It is based on a basic course in differential geometry which was given by the author for students of the Mathematical Department of the Novosibirsk State University for several years. The contents is as follows: Chapter 1. Smooth manifolds: 1. Topological spaces. 2. Smooth manifolds and mappings. 3. Tensors. 4. Immersing smooth manifolds into Euclidean spaces. Chapter 2. Riemannian manifolds: 5. Metric tensor. 6. Affine connection and covariant derivation. 7. Riemannian connections. 8. Curvature. 9. Geodesics. Chapter 3. Examples of Riemannian manifolds and their applications: 10. Lobachevskiĭ plane. 11. Pseudo-Euclidean spaces and their applications in physics.

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