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Lectures on Surfaces: (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Them
 
Anatole Katok Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Vaughn Climenhaga Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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SoftcoverISBN:  978-0-8218-4679-7
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Lectures on Surfaces: (Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Them
Anatole Katok Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Vaughn Climenhaga Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4679-7
Product Code:  STML/46
List Price: $53.00
Individual Price: $42.40
eBook ISBN:  978-1-4704-1817-5
Product Code:  STML/46.E
List Price: $50.00
Individual Price: $40.00
Softcover ISBN:  978-0-8218-4679-7
eBookISBN:  978-1-4704-1817-5
Product Code:  STML/46.B
List Price: $103.00$78.00
  • Book Details
     
     
    Student Mathematical Library
    Volume: 462008; 286 pp
    MSC: Primary 51; 53; 57;

    Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. At the same time, many of those notions appear in a technically simpler and more graphic form than in their general “natural” settings.

    The first, primarily expository, chapter introduces many of the principal actors—the round sphere, flat torus, Möbius strip, Klein bottle, elliptic plane, etc.—as well as various methods of describing surfaces, beginning with the traditional representation by equations in three-dimensional space, proceeding to parametric representation, and also introducing the less intuitive, but central for our purposes, representation as factor spaces. It concludes with a preliminary discussion of the metric geometry of surfaces, and the associated isometry groups. Subsequent chapters introduce fundamental mathematical structures—topological, combinatorial (piecewise linear), smooth, Riemannian (metric), and complex—in the specific context of surfaces.

    The focal point of the book is the Euler characteristic, which appears in many different guises and ties together concepts from combinatorics, algebraic topology, Morse theory, ordinary differential equations, and Riemannian geometry. The repeated appearance of the Euler characteristic provides both a unifying theme and a powerful illustration of the notion of an invariant in all those theories.

    The assumed background is the standard calculus sequence, some linear algebra, and rudiments of ODE and real analysis. All notions are introduced and discussed, and virtually all results proved, based on this background.

    This book is a result of the MASS course in geometry in the fall semester of 2007.

    This book is published in cooperation with Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters.
    Readership

    Undergraduate and graduate students interested in broadening their view of geometry and topology.

  • Table of Contents
     
     
    • Chapters
    • Chapter 1. Various ways of representing surfaces and basic examples
    • Chapter 2. Combinatorial structure and topological classification of surfaces
    • Chapter 3. Differentiable structure on surfaces: Real and complex
    • Chapter 4. Riemannian metrics and geometry of surfaces
    • Chapter 5. Topology and smooth structure revisited
    • Suggested reading
    • Hints
  • Reviews
     
     
    • This book will be a welcome addition to college and university libraries and an excellent source for supplementary reading.

      Mathematical Reviews
    • (This book) does a masterful job of introducing the study of surfaces to advanced undergraduates. ... The authors succeed in pulling in many topics while keeping their story coherent and compelling. This book would work well as the text for a capstone course or independent reading.

      MAA Reviews
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Volume: 462008; 286 pp
MSC: Primary 51; 53; 57;

Surfaces are among the most common and easily visualized mathematical objects, and their study brings into focus fundamental ideas, concepts, and methods from geometry, topology, complex analysis, Morse theory, and group theory. At the same time, many of those notions appear in a technically simpler and more graphic form than in their general “natural” settings.

The first, primarily expository, chapter introduces many of the principal actors—the round sphere, flat torus, Möbius strip, Klein bottle, elliptic plane, etc.—as well as various methods of describing surfaces, beginning with the traditional representation by equations in three-dimensional space, proceeding to parametric representation, and also introducing the less intuitive, but central for our purposes, representation as factor spaces. It concludes with a preliminary discussion of the metric geometry of surfaces, and the associated isometry groups. Subsequent chapters introduce fundamental mathematical structures—topological, combinatorial (piecewise linear), smooth, Riemannian (metric), and complex—in the specific context of surfaces.

The focal point of the book is the Euler characteristic, which appears in many different guises and ties together concepts from combinatorics, algebraic topology, Morse theory, ordinary differential equations, and Riemannian geometry. The repeated appearance of the Euler characteristic provides both a unifying theme and a powerful illustration of the notion of an invariant in all those theories.

The assumed background is the standard calculus sequence, some linear algebra, and rudiments of ODE and real analysis. All notions are introduced and discussed, and virtually all results proved, based on this background.

This book is a result of the MASS course in geometry in the fall semester of 2007.

This book is published in cooperation with Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters.
Readership

Undergraduate and graduate students interested in broadening their view of geometry and topology.

  • Chapters
  • Chapter 1. Various ways of representing surfaces and basic examples
  • Chapter 2. Combinatorial structure and topological classification of surfaces
  • Chapter 3. Differentiable structure on surfaces: Real and complex
  • Chapter 4. Riemannian metrics and geometry of surfaces
  • Chapter 5. Topology and smooth structure revisited
  • Suggested reading
  • Hints
  • This book will be a welcome addition to college and university libraries and an excellent source for supplementary reading.

    Mathematical Reviews
  • (This book) does a masterful job of introducing the study of surfaces to advanced undergraduates. ... The authors succeed in pulling in many topics while keeping their story coherent and compelling. This book would work well as the text for a capstone course or independent reading.

    MAA Reviews
Review Copy – for reviewers who would like to review an AMS book
Permission – for use of book, eBook, or Journal content
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