In addition , the following individuals all expended considerable efforts in note - taking and teaching assistance during the lectures : Jiang Xue - Cheng ( ** ) , You Cheng - Ye ( kk ) , Liu Wang - Jin ( M ) , Han Nien - Guo ( AE ) ...
This book is a translation of an authoritative introductory text based on a lecture series delivered by the renowned differential geometer, Professor S S Chern in Beijing University in 1980.
This book is based on lectures given at Harvard University during the academic year 1960-1961.
This book gives an introduction to the basics of differential geometry, keeping in mind the natural origin of many geometrical quantities, as well as the applications of differential geometry and its methods to other sciences.
... E. B. Christoffel. A. Hurwitz later gave a much simpler proof which made use of spherical harmonics. In 1912 Hilbert proved that the ... CHRISTOFFEL'S PROBLEM 6.1 Uniqueness theorem for Christoffel's problem 6.2 An integral formula.