Projective Differential Geometry Old and New: From the Schwarzian Derivative to the Cohomology of Diffeomorphism Groups

Ideas of projective geometry keep reappearing in seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. This book provides a rapid route for graduate students and researchers to contemplate the frontiers of contemporary research in this classic subject. The authors include exercises and historical and cultural comments relating the basic ideas to a broader context.

Author: Valentin Ovsienko, V. Ovsienko, S. Tabachnikov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 06/01/2005
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780521831864

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