0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Algebraic geometry

Buy Now

Geometry Revealed - A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010) Loot Price: R2,607
Discovery Miles 26 070
Geometry Revealed - A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed....

Geometry Revealed - A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010)

Marcel Berger; Translated by Lester J. Senechal

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R2,607 Discovery Miles 26 070 | Repayment Terms: R244 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

Both classical geometry and modern differential geometry have been active subjects of research throughout the 20th century and lie at the heart of many recent advances in mathematics and physics. The underlying motivating concept for the present book is that it offers readers the elements of a modern geometric culture by means of a whole series of visually appealing unsolved (or recently solved) problems that require the creation of concepts and tools of varying abstraction. Starting with such natural, classical objects as lines, planes, circles, spheres, polygons, polyhedra, curves, surfaces, convex sets, etc., crucial ideas and above all abstract concepts needed for attaining the results are elucidated. These are conceptual notions, each built "above" the preceding and permitting an increase in abstraction, represented metaphorically by Jacob's ladder with its rungs: the 'ladder' in the Old Testament, that angels ascended and descended... In all this, the aim of the book is to demonstrate to readers the unceasingly renewed spirit of geometry and that even so-called "elementary" geometry is very much alive and at the very heart of the work of numerous contemporary mathematicians. It is also shown that there are innumerable paths yet to be explored and concepts to be created. The book is visually rich and inviting, so that readers may open it at random places and find much pleasure throughout according their own intuitions and inclinations. Marcel Berger is t he author of numerous successful books on geometry, this book once again is addressed to all students and teachers of mathematics with an affinity for geometry.

General

Imprint: Springer-Verlag
Country of origin: Germany
Release date: August 2016
First published: 2010
Authors: Marcel Berger
Translators: Lester J. Senechal
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 43mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 831
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2010
ISBN-13: 978-3-662-50122-1
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Combinatorics & graph theory
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Algebraic geometry
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Non-linear science
Promotions
LSN: 3-662-50122-8
Barcode: 9783662501221

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Sasakian Geometry
Charles Boyer, the late Krzysztof Galicki Hardcover R5,458 Discovery Miles 54 580
Michael Atiyah Collected Works - Volume…
Michael Atiyah Hardcover R9,856 Discovery Miles 98 560
Cyclic Modules and the Structure of…
S.K. Jain, Ashish K. Srivastava, … Hardcover R5,603 Discovery Miles 56 030
Riemann Surfaces
Simon Donaldson Hardcover R4,284 Discovery Miles 42 840
Sets, Groups, and Mappings - An…
Andrew D. Hwang Hardcover R2,377 Discovery Miles 23 770
The Classification of the Finite Simple…
Inna Capdeboscq, Daniel Gorenstein, … Paperback R2,610 Discovery Miles 26 100
Algebras, Lattices, Varieties - Volume…
Ralph S Freese, Ralph N. McKenzie, … Paperback R3,285 Discovery Miles 32 850
Geometric Sculptures - an Exploration of…
Rocky Lau Hardcover R1,811 Discovery Miles 18 110
Groups and Topological Dynamics
Volodymyr Nekrashevych Paperback R2,303 Discovery Miles 23 030
Associative Algebraic Geometry
Arvid Siqveland Hardcover R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200
One-cocycles And Knot Invariants
Thomas Fiedler Hardcover R3,411 Discovery Miles 34 110
Normal Partitions and Hierarchical…
Gennadiy Vladimirovich Zhizhin Hardcover R5,931 Discovery Miles 59 310

See more

Partners