Riemannian Geometry
by Ilkka Holopainen, Tuomas Sahlsten
2013
Number of pages: 102
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Based on the lecture notes on differential geometry. From the table of contents: Differentiable manifolds, a brief review; Riemannian metrics; Connections; Geodesics; Curvature; Jacobi fields; Curvature and topology; Comparison geometry; The sphere theorem.
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