Metric structures for Riemannian and non-Riemannian spaces. Transl. from the French by Sean Michael Bates. With appendices by M. Katz, P. Pansu, and S. Semmes. Edited by J. LaFontaine and P. Pansu

Publication date: 10 January 2007

Published in: Modern Birkhäuser Classics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Distance geometry (51K99) Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry (53-02) Algebraic topology of manifolds (57N65) Direct methods ((G)-spaces of Busemann, etc.) (53C70)

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