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Geometry Revealed [electronic resource] : A Jacob's Ladder to Modern Higher Geometry / by Marcel Berger.

Berger, Marcel. (author.). SpringerLink (Online service) (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9783540709978
  • Physical Description: XII, 860p. 666 illus. online resource.
  • Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
Subject: Mathematics.
Differentiable dynamical systems.
Combinatorics.
Geometry.
Discrete groups.
Global differential geometry.
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Mathematics.
Geometry.
History of Mathematics.
Convex and Discrete Geometry.
Differential Geometry.
Combinatorics.
Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

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Points and lines in the plane
Circles and spheres
The sphere by itself: can we distribute points on it evenly?
Conics and quadrics
Plane curves
Smooth surfaces
Convexity and convex sets
Polygons, polyhedra, polytopes
Lattices, packings and tilings in the plane
Lattices and packings in higher dimensions
Geometry and dynamics I: billiards
Geometry and dynamics II: geodesic flow on a surface.

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