A Course in Riemannian Geometry
by David R. Wilkins
Publisher: Trinity College, Dublin 2005
Number of pages: 72
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From the table of contents: Smooth Manifolds; Tangent Spaces; Affine Connections on Smooth Manifolds; Riemannian Manifolds; Geometry of Surfaces in R3; Geodesics in Riemannian Manifolds; Complete Riemannian Manifolds; Jacobi Fields.
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