Mathematics - Manifolds, Geometry - Differential, Mathematical Analysis - Functional Analysis, Mathematics - Topology
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Overview
This volume is an outgrowth of the lectures delivered at Tohoku University and at the Summer Graduate Program held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications at the University of Minnesota. It would make a suitable textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students.
Editorials
From The Critics
Many contemporary mathematical problems, such as geodesics, can be formulated as variational problems in surfaces or in the form of manifolds. Originating as an outgrowth of lectures delivered at Tohoku U. (Japan) and at the U. of Minnesota (U.S.), this monograph introduces some of the fundamental questions and results in geometric variational problems, specifically focusing on the length of curves and the energy of maps. Translated from the Japanese work . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 26, 2002
Publisher
Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2002.
Pages
209
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780821813560