Transition: The Need for a More General Framework

Marcel Berger ()
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Marcel Berger: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques IHES

Chapter 2 in A Panoramic View of Riemannian Geometry, 2003, pp 101-104 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Euclidean geomeltry and the geometry of surfaces in E3 that we looked at in the preceeding chapter turn out to be quite unsatisfactory for many reasons. We will review some of them here; they are not all logically related.

Keywords: Riemannian Manifold; Fundamental Form; Riemannian Geometry; Euclidean Geometry; Parallel Transport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18245-7_2

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