The Foundations of Differential Geometry.

VEBLEN, Oswald & J. H. C. WHITEHEAD:

Published by Cambridge: University Press, 1932.

About this Item

First Edition, American issue (sticker on front wrapper of London branch of Cambridge University Press as well as Macmillan, New York). ix, 97 pp; figs. Original printed wrappers. Signature on front wrapper (E. Pinney, perhaps Cal-Berkeley scientist Edmund Pinney, b. 1917), else Very Good. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. "Soon after Einstein's theory of general relativity appeared Veblen turned his attention to differential geometry. This work led to important applications in relativity theory, and much of his work also found application in atomic physics. His work The invariants of quadratic differential forms (1927) is a systematic treatment of Riemann geometry while his work, written jointly with his student Henry Whitehead, The foundations of differential geometry (1933 -- date is incorrect) gives the first definition of a differentiable manifold" (MacTutor Web site).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Foundations of Differential Geometry.
• Publisher: Cambridge: University Press, 1932.
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing