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Freedom in mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / by Pierre Cartier, Jean Dhombres, Gerhard Heinzmann, Cédric Villani
| Freedom in mathematics [[electronic resource] /] / by Pierre Cartier, Jean Dhombres, Gerhard Heinzmann, Cédric Villani |
| Autore | Cartier Pierre |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Delhi : , : Springer India : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Applied mathematics Engineering mathematics Social sciences History of Mathematical Sciences Applications of Mathematics Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| ISBN | 81-322-2788-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Presentation of the Authors (Pierre Cartier, Jean Dhombres, Gerhard Heinzmann, Cedric Villani) -- On the Origins of Mathematics -- The Relations between Mathématics and Reality -- Social and Political History of Mathematics Education -- Nature and Issues of the Mathematics Research -- Conclusion -- Annexure. |
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From Alexandria, Through Baghdad [[electronic resource] ] : Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L. Berggren / / edited by Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van Brummelen
| From Alexandria, Through Baghdad [[electronic resource] ] : Surveys and Studies in the Ancient Greek and Medieval Islamic Mathematical Sciences in Honor of J.L. Berggren / / edited by Nathan Sidoli, Glen Van Brummelen |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.901 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History History of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics, general |
| ISBN | 3-642-36736-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | History of Greek Mathematics -- Mathematical Reconstructions Out, Textual Studies in -- Research on Ancient Greek Mathematical Sciences -- History of Mathematics in the Islamic World -- Mathematics and Her Sisters in Medieval Islam -- A Survey of Research in the Mathematical Sciences in Medieval Islam from 1996 to 2011 -- The Life of Pi: From Archimedes to ENIAC and Beyond -- Mechanical Astronomy: A Route to the Ancient Discovery of Epicycles and Eccentrics -- Some Greek Sundial Meridians -- An Archimedean Proof of Heron’s Formula for the Area of a Triangle -- Reading the Lost Folia of the Archimedean Palimpsest -- Acts of geometrical construction in the Spherics of Theodosios -- Archimedes Among the Ottomans -- The “Second” Arabic Translation of Theodosius’ Sphaerica -- More Archimedean than Archimedes: A New Trace of Abū Sahl al-Kūhī’s work in Latin -- Les mathématiques en Occident musulman -- Ibn al-Raqqām’s al-Zīj al-Mustawfī in MS Rabat National Library 2461 -- An Ottoman astrolabe full of surprises -- Un algébriste arabe: Abū Kāmil Šuǧāc ibn Aslam -- Abū Kāmil’s Book on Mensuration -- Hebrew Texts on the Regular Polyhedra -- A Treatise by Bīrūnī on the Rule of Three and its Variations -- Safavid Art, Science, and Courtly Education in the Seventeenth Century -- Translating Playfair’s Geometry into Arabic. |
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| Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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From arithmetic to zeta-functions [[electronic resource] ] : number theory in memory of Wolfgang Schwarz / / edited by Jürgen Sander, Jörn Steuding, Rasa Steuding
| From arithmetic to zeta-functions [[electronic resource] ] : number theory in memory of Wolfgang Schwarz / / edited by Jürgen Sander, Jörn Steuding, Rasa Steuding |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXXVII, 538 p. 67 illus., 45 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 512.7 |
| Soggetto topico |
Number theory
Sequences (Mathematics) Mathematics History Number Theory Sequences, Series, Summability History of Mathematical Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-28203-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Forbidden Integer Ratios of Consecutive Power Sums, Ioulia N. Baoulina and Pieter Moree -- A Note on the Negative Pell Equation, Valentin Blomer -- Localisation Conditionnelle de Diviseurs, Régis de la Bretèche, Gérald Tenenbaum -- A Ternary Problem in Additive Prime Number Theory, Jörg Brüdern -- An Improvement of Liouville’s Inequality, Yann Bugeaud -- Guided by Schwarz’ Functions: a Walk Through the Garden of Mahlers Transcendence Method, Peter Bundschuh and Keijo Väänänen -- Sums of Two Squares and a Power, Rainer Dietmann and Christian Elsholtz -- Multiplicative Functions and the Sign of Maass Form Fourier Coefficients, P. D. T. A. Elliott -- On Error Sum Functions for Approximations with Arithmetic Conditions, Carsten Elsner -- Sum of the Lerch Zeta Function over Nontrivial Zeros of the Dirichlet L-Function, Ramūnas Garunkštis and Justas Kalpokas -- Schur-Weyl-Dualities - Old and New, Anne Henke -- Arithmetic functions - a Pivotal Topic in the Scientific Work of Wolfgang, Karl-Heinz Indlekofer -- On Some Selected Works of Wolfgang Schwarz, Aleksandar Ivić -- Sums of Two Squares of Sums of Two Squares, Rebecca Jakob -- The Joint Discrete Universality of Periodic Zeta-Functions, Antanas Laurinčikas -- Remembering Wolfgang Schwarz, his Life and Work, Lutz G. Lucht -- Dynamical Systems and Uniform Distribution of Sequences, Manfred G. Madritsch and Robert F. Tichy -- Asymptotics and Equidistribution of Cotangent Sums Associated to the Estermann and Riemann Zeta Functions, Helmut Maier and Michael Th. Rassias -- A Turán-Kubilius Inequality on Mappings of a Finite Set, Eugenijus Manstavičius -- Aspects of Zeta-Function Theory in the Mathematical Works of Adolf Hurwitz, Nicola M.R. Oswald and Jörn Steuding -- Selberg Sums a New Perspective, Samuel J. Patterson -- Polignac Numbers, Conjectures of Erdős on Gaps between Primes, Arithmetic Progressions in Primes, and the Bounded Gap Conjecture, János Pintz -- Idempotents and Congruence ax=b (mod n), Štefan Porubský -- Recent Developments on the Edge Between Number Theory and Graph Theory, Jürgen Sander and Thorsten Sander -- The Leading Coefficients of Stern Polynomials, Andrzeij Schinzel -- The Non-Existence of Universal Carmichael Numbers, Jan-Christoph Schlage-Puchta -- Arithmetic Properties of Blocks of Consecutive Integers, Tarlok N. Shorey and Rob Tijdeman -- The GCD of the Shifted Fibonacci Sequence, Jürgen Spilker -- On Liouville Numbers - Yet Another Application of Functional Analysis to Number Theory, Jörn Steuding -- Natural Boundaries of Power Series with Multiplicative Coefficients in Algebraic Number Fields, Friedemann Tuttas -- A Minimal Result of Hardy, Eduard Wirsing -- Regular Dessins with Abelian Automorphism Groups, Jürgen Wolfart and Benjamin Mühlbauer. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157502303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
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From Classical to Modern Algebraic Geometry [[electronic resource] ] : Corrado Segre's Mastership and Legacy / / edited by Gianfranco Casnati, Alberto Conte, Letterio Gatto, Livia Giacardi, Marina Marchisio, Alessandro Verra
| From Classical to Modern Algebraic Geometry [[electronic resource] ] : Corrado Segre's Mastership and Legacy / / edited by Gianfranco Casnati, Alberto Conte, Letterio Gatto, Livia Giacardi, Marina Marchisio, Alessandro Verra |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (760 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 516.35 |
| Collana | Trends in the History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Algebraic geometry History of Mathematical Sciences Algebraic Geometry |
| ISBN | 3-319-32994-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Part I: Corrado Segre' Leadership: from Torino to the International Scene/Arena -- Contributions by Aldo Brigaglia, Alberto Conte and Livia Giacardi, Paola Gario, Erika Luciano and Clara Silvia Roero, David Rowe -- Part II: Perspectives on Segre's Legacy -- Contributions by Jérémy Blanc, Luca Chiantini and Duccio Sacchi, Ciro Ciliberto, Maria Angelica Cueto, Massimiliano Mella, Kristian Ranestad and Piotr Zwiernik, Laura Costa, Rosa M. Miró-Roig and Joan Pons-Llopis, Igor Dolgachev, Margarida Mendes Lopes and Rita Pardini, Emilia Mezzetti, Edoardo Sernesi -- Part III: The Unpublished Notebook of Corrado Segre Sulla Geometria Sugli Enti Algebrici Semplicemente Infiniti (1890-1891) -- Alberto Conte, Introduction -- Reproduction of the Manuscript -- Appendices. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254062903321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 | ||
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From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lizhen Ji, Athanase Papadopoulos, Sumio Yamada
| From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lizhen Ji, Athanase Papadopoulos, Sumio Yamada |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXXIV, 647 p. 24 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 510.9 |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Differential geometry History of Mathematical Sciences Differential Geometry |
| ISBN | 3-319-60039-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction -- 1.Athanase Papadopoulos: Looking backward: From Euler to Riemann -- 2.Jeremey Gray: Riemann on geometry, physics, and philosophy – some remarks -- 3.Hubert Goenner: Some remarks on a contribution to electrodynamics by Bernhard Riemann -- 4.Christian Houzel: Riemann's Memoir Über das Verschwinden der Theta-Functionen -- 5.Sumio Yamada: Riemann's work on minimal surfaces -- 6. Athanase Papadopoulos: Physics in Riemann's mathematical papers -- 7.Athanase Papadopoulos: Cauchy and Puiseux: Two precursors of Riemann -- 8.Athanase Papadopoulos: Riemann surfaces: Reception by the French school -- 9.Ken'ichi Ohshika: The origin of the notion of manifold: from Riemann's Habilitationsvortrag onward -- 10.Franck Jedrzejewski: Deleuze et la géométrie riemannienne : une topologie des multiplicités -- 11.Arkady Plotnitsky: Comprehending the Connection of Things: Bernhard Riemann and the Architecture of Mathematical Concepts -- 12.Feng Luo: The Riemann mapping theorem and its discrete counterparts -- 13.Norbert A'Campo, Vincent Alberge and Elena Frenkel: The Riemann–Roch theorem -- 14.Victor Pambuccian, Horst Struve and Rolf Struve: Metric geometries in an axiomatic perspective -- 15.Toshikazu Sunada: Generalized Riemann sums -- 16.Jacques Franchi: From Riemannian to Relativistic Diffusions -- 17.Andreas Hermann and Emmanuel Humbert: On the Positive Mass Theorem for closed Riemannian manifolds -- 18.Marc Mars: On local characterization results in geometry and gravitation -- 19.Jean-Philippe Nicolas: The conformal approach to asymptotic analysis -- 20.Lizhen Ji: Bernhard Riemann and his work. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254286203321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 | ||
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Functions and generality of logic [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's logicisms / / by Hourya Benis-Sinaceur, Marco Panza, Gabriel Sandu
| Functions and generality of logic [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's logicisms / / by Hourya Benis-Sinaceur, Marco Panza, Gabriel Sandu |
| Autore | Benis-Sinaceur Hourya |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (145 p.) |
| Disciplina | 511.324 |
| Collana | Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Logic
Mathematics History Philosophy and science History of Mathematical Sciences Philosophy of Science |
| ISBN | 3-319-17109-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Is Dedekind a logicist?; Hourya Benis Sinaceur -- Chapter 2: Functions and Expressions; Marco Panza -- Chapter 3: Frege, Russell, Ramsey on arbitrary functions; Gabriel Sandu. |
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Norma B. Goethe, Philip Beeley, David Rabouin
| G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Norma B. Goethe, Philip Beeley, David Rabouin |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina |
180-190
5 509 510.9 |
| Collana | Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
History
Philosophy Mathematics History of Science History of Philosophy History of Mathematical Sciences |
| ISBN | 94-017-9664-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | PART I: MATHEMATICS AND PHILOSOPHY -- Paper 1: The Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy in Leibniz´s Thought; Norma B. Goethe, Philip Beeley and David Rabouin -- Paper 2: Leibniz, Philosopher Mathematician and Mathematical Philosopher; Philip Beeley -- Paper 3: The Difficulty of Being Simple: On Some Interactions between Mathematics and Philosophy in Leibniz’s Analysis of Notions; David Rabouin -- PART II: MATHEMATICAL REFLECTIONS -- Paper 4: Leibniz’s Mathematical and Philosophical Analysis of Time; Emily R. Grosholz -- Paper5: Analyticité, Équipollence et Théorie des Courbes chez Leibniz; Eberhard Knobloch -- Paper 6: Leibniz as Reader and Second Inventor: The Cases of Barrow and Mengoli; Siegmund Probst -- PART III: THE PROBLEM OF INFINITY -- Paper 7: Leibniz´s Actual Infinite in Relation to his Analysis of Matter; Richard Arthur -- Paper 8: Comparability of Infinities and Infinite Multitude in Galileo and Leibniz; Samuel Levey -- Paper 9: Leibniz on the Elimination of Infinitesimals; Douglas Jesseph. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483310903321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
| Gardens, Knowledge and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.71 |
| Collana | Trends in the History of Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History History of Mathematical Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-26342-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Hubertus Fischer, Volker R. Remmert, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Introduction -- I Scientization and Knowledge about Nature -- 2.Volker R. Remmert: The Art of Garden and Landscape Design and the Mathematical Sciences in the Early Modern Period -- 3.Michael Leslie: “Without design, or Fate, or Force”: Why Couldn’t John Evelyn Complete the “Elysium Britannicum”? -- 4.Chandra Mukerji: The Power of the Sun-King at the Potager du Roi -- II Mathematical Sciences and the Art of Gardening -- 5.Simone M. Kaiser and Matteo Valleriani: The Organ of the Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Standards of Pneumatic Engineering in the Renaissance -- 6.Denis Ribouillault: Sundials on the Quirinal: Astronomy and the Early Modern Garden -- 7.Anthony Gerbino: Jacques Lemercier's 'Scenografia du Chasteau de Montjeu': Printmaking, Cartography, and Landscape in 1620 -- 8.Hubertus Fischer: Utopia, Science and Garden Art in the Early Modern Era -- III Botany between Art and Science -- 9.Alessandro Tosi: Botanical illustration and the idea of the garden in the sixteenth century between imitation and imagination -- 10.Irina Schmiedel: Gardens on Canvas and Paper: Cataloguing Botanical Abundance in Late Medici Tuscany -- 11.Gregory Grämiger: Reconstructing Order: The Spatial Arrangements of Plants in the Hortus Botanicus of Leiden University in its First Years -- 12.Carola Piepenbring-Thomas: Garden visits, observations, reading and excerpts. Martin Fogel (1634-1675) and his techniques of acquiring knowledge -- IV Botanical Knowledge and Horticulture -- 13.Anatole Tchikine: Watering the Renaissance Garden: Horticultural Theory and Irrigation Practice in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany -- 14.Alette Fleischer: Gardening nature, gardening knowledge: The parallel activities of stabilizing knowledge and gardens in the early modern period -- 15.Ana Duarte Rodriguez: Gardening knowledge through the circulation of agricultural treatises in Portugal from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries -- 16.Iris Lauterbach: Commerce and Erudition: Civic Self Representation by Botany and Horticulture in Germany, 16th to 18th centuries -- V Perspective -- 17.Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Landscape Design and the Natural Sciences in Germany and the United States in the Early Twentieth Century: “Reactionary Modernism”? -- Index of names. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254091503321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2016 | ||
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Geometric Methods in Physics [[electronic resource] ] : XXXII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 30-July 6, 2013 / / edited by Piotr Kielanowski, Pierre Bieliavsky, Alexander Odesskii, Anatol Odzijewicz, Martin Schlichenmaier, Theodore Voronov
| Geometric Methods in Physics [[electronic resource] ] : XXXII Workshop, Białowieża, Poland, June 30-July 6, 2013 / / edited by Piotr Kielanowski, Pierre Bieliavsky, Alexander Odesskii, Anatol Odzijewicz, Martin Schlichenmaier, Theodore Voronov |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Birkhäuser, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
| Disciplina | 515.642 |
| Collana | Trends in Mathematics |
| Soggetto topico |
Group theory
Global analysis (Mathematics) Manifolds (Mathematics) Quantum computers Mathematics History Group Theory and Generalizations Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds Quantum Computing History of Mathematical Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-06248-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Part I: Deformation, Quantization: Scientific Landmarks of Daniel Sternheimer -- Part II: Quantum Mechanics -- Part III: Groups and Non-commutative Structures -- Part IV: Differential Equations and Special Functions -- Part V: General Methods. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299987503321 |
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Geometry in History [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. G. Dani, Athanase Papadopoulos
| Geometry in History [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. G. Dani, Athanase Papadopoulos |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (759 pages) |
| Disciplina | 516.009 |
| Soggetto topico |
Projective geometry
Mathematics History Topology Functions of complex variables Projective Geometry History of Mathematical Sciences Functions of a Complex Variable |
| ISBN | 3-030-13609-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Plato on Geometry and the Geometers -- Topology and Biology: From Aristotle to Thom -- Time and eriodicity from Ptolemy to Schrödinger: Paradigm Shifts vs Continuity in History of Mathematics -- Convexity in Greek Antiquity -- On the Concept of Curve: Geometry and Algebra, fromMathematicalModernity to MathematicalModernism -- From Euclid to Riemann and Beyond: How to Describe the Shape of the Universe -- A Path in History, from Curvature to Convexity -- The Axiomatic Destiny of the Theorems of Pappus and Desargues -- Projective Configuration Theorems: Old Wine into New Wineskins -- Poincaré’s GeometricWorldview and Philosophy -- Perturbing a Planar Rotation: Normal Hyperbolicity and Angular Twist -- René Thom and an Anticipated h-Principle -- Rigid and Flexible Facets of Symplectic Topology -- Flat Affine, Projective and Conformal Structures on Manifolds: A Historical Perspective -- Basic Aspects of Differential Geometry -- The Global Study of Riemannian-Finsler Geometry -- The Poincaré Conjecture and Related Statements -- A Glimpse into the Problems of the Fourth Dimension -- Memories fromMy Former Life: The Making of a Mathematician -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910349317903321 |
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