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This book is a posthumous publication of a classic by Prof. Shoshichi Kobayashi, who taught at U.C. Berkeley for 50 years, recently translated by Eriko Shinozaki Nagumo and Makiko Sumi Tanaka. There are five chapters: 1. Plane Curves and Space Curves; 2. Local Theory of Surfaces in Space; 3. Geometry of Surfaces; 4. Gauss–Bonnet Theorem; and 5. Minimal Surfaces. Chapter 1 discusses local and global properties of planar curves and curves in space. Chapter 2 deals with local properties of surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. Two types of curvatures — the Gaussian curvature K and the mean curvature H —are introduced. The method of the moving frames, a standard technique in differential geometry, is introduced in the context of a surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space. In Chapter 3, the Riemannian metric on a surface is introduced and properties determined only by the first fundamental form are discussed. The concept of a geodesic introduced in Chapter 2 is extensively discussed, and several examples of geodesics are presented with illustrations. Chapter 4 starts with a simple and elegant proof of Stokes’ theorem for a domain. Then the Gauss–Bonnet theorem, the major topic of this book, is discussed at great length. The theorem is a most beautiful and deep result in differential geometry. It yields a relation between the integral of the Gaussian curvature over a given oriented closed surface S and the topology of S in terms of its Euler number χ(S). Here again, many illustrations are provided to facilitate the reader’s understanding. Chapter 5, Minimal Surfaces, requires some elementary knowledge of complex analysis. However, the author retained the introductory nature of this book and focused on detailed explanations of the examples of minimal surfaces given in Chapter 2. .

Differential geometry. --- Mathematical analysis. --- Analysis (Mathematics). --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Differential Geometry. --- Analysis. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).

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This book aims to provide a friendly introduction to non-commutative geometry. It studies index theory from a classical differential geometry perspective up to the point where classical differential geometry methods become insufficient. It then presents non-commutative geometry as a natural continuation of classical differential geometry. It thereby aims to provide a natural link between classical differential geometry and non-commutative geometry. The book shows that the index formula is a topological statement, and ends with non-commutative topology.

Differential geometry. --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Differential Geometry. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Analytic spaces --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Geometry, Differential --- Topology --- Differential geometry --- Geometry, Differential.

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Manifolds, the higher-dimensional analogs of smooth curves and surfaces, are fundamental objects in modern mathematics. Combining aspects of algebra, topology, and analysis, manifolds have also been applied to classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum field theory. In this streamlined introduction to the subject, the theory of manifolds is presented with the aim of helping the reader achieve a rapid mastery of the essential topics. By the end of the book the reader should be able to compute, at least for simple spaces, one of the most basic topological invariants of a manifold, its de Rham cohomology. Along the way the reader acquires the knowledge and skills necessary for further study of geometry and topology. The requisite point-set topology is included in an appendix of twenty pages; other appendices review facts from real analysis and linear algebra. Hints and solutions are provided to many of the exercises and problems. This work may be used as the text for a one-semester graduate or advanced undergraduate course, as well as by students engaged in self-study. Requiring only minimal undergraduate prerequisites, An Introduction to Manifolds is also an excellent foundation for Springer GTM 82, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology. .

Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Complex manifolds. --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Geometry, Differential. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds. --- Differential Geometry.

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Edited in collaboration with the Grassmann Research Group, this book contains many important articles delivered at the ICM 2014 Satellite Conference and the 18th International Workshop on Real and Complex Submanifolds, which was held at the National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon, Republic of Korea, August 10–12, 2014. The book covers various aspects of differential geometry focused on submanifolds, symmetric spaces, Riemannian and Lorentzian manifolds, and Kähler and Grassmann manifolds.

Submanifolds --- Geometry, Differential --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Global differential geometry. --- Cell aggregation --- Differential Geometry. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Mathematics. --- Aggregation, Cell --- Cell patterning --- Cell interaction --- Microbial aggregation --- Differential geometry. --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Analytic spaces --- Topology --- Differential geometry

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Among all the Hamiltonian systems, the integrable ones have special geometric properties; in particular, their solutions are very regular and quasi-periodic. The quasi-periodicity of the solutions of an integrable system is a result of the fact that the system is invariant under a (semi-global) torus action. It is thus natural to investigate the symplectic manifolds that can be endowed with a (global) torus action. This leads to symplectic toric manifolds (Part B of this book). Physics makes a surprising come-back in Part A: to describe Mirror Symmetry, one looks for a special kind of Lagrangian submanifolds and integrable systems, the special Lagrangians. Furthermore, integrable Hamiltonian systems on punctured cotangent bundles are a starting point for the study of contact toric manifolds (Part C of this book).

Differential geometry. Global analysis --- Differential geometry. --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Physics. --- Differential Geometry. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Mathematical Methods in Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Analytic spaces --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Geometry, Differential --- Topology --- Differential geometry