Lectures on Finsler geometry / Zhongmin Shen.

In 1854, B. Riemann introduced the notion of curvature for spaces with a family of inner products. There was no significant progress in the general case until 1918, when P. Finsler studied the variation problem in regular metric spaces. Around 1926, L. Berwald extended Riemann's notion of curva...

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Main Author: Shen, Zhongmin, 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©2001.
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