Author: Jacques Lafontaine

Metric theory has undergone a dramatic phase transition in the last decades when its focus moved from the foundations of real analysis to Riemannian geometry and algebraic topology, to the theory of …

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This book is an introduction to differential manifolds. It gives solid preliminaries for more advanced topics: Riemannian manifolds, differential topology, Lie theory. It presupposes little backgroun …

From the preface:Many years have passed since the first edition. However, the encouragements of various readers and friends have persuaded us to write this third edition. During these years, Riemanni …

Traditional point of view: pinched manifolds 147 Almost flat pinching 148 Coarse point of view: compactness theorems of Gromov and Cheeger 149 K. CURVATURE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ORTHOGONAL GROUP …

In this second edition, the main additions are a section devoted to surfaces with constant negative curvature, and an introduction to conformal geometry. Also, we present a -soft-proof of the Paul Le …

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