Geometry in History (Record no. 205956)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9783030136093 |
| -- | 978-3-030-13609-3 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Geometry in History |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by S. G. Dani, Athanase Papadopoulos. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. 2019. |
| 300 ## - DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | XVI, 750 p. 104 illus., 51 illus. in color. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Projective geometry. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Mathematics. |
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| Keyword | History. |
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| Keyword | Topology. |
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| Keyword | Functions of complex variables. |
| 650 14 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Projective Geometry. |
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| Keyword | History of Mathematical Sciences. |
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| Keyword | Topology. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Functions of a Complex Variable. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dani, S. G. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Papadopoulos, Athanase. |
| 856 40 - ONLINE RESOURCES | |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13609-3 |
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| Koha item type | e-Books |
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| Home library | Current library | Full call number | Accession number | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | 516.5 | E-3059 | e-Books |