Riemannian
geometry has today become a vast and
important subject. This new book of Marcel Berger sets out to
introduce readers to most of the living topics of the field and convey them
quickly to the main
results known to date. These
results are stated without detailed proofs but the main ideas involved are described and motivated. This enables the reader to obtain a sweeping panoramic view of almost the entirety of the field. However, since a Riemannian manifold is, even initially, a subtle object, appealing to highly non-natural concepts, the first three chapters devote themselves to introducing the various concepts and tools of Riemannian geometry in the most natural and motivating way, following in particular Gauss and Riemann..
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