By I. M. James
ISBN-10: 008009869X
ISBN-13: 9780080098692
The ebook starts off with a listing of Whitehead's works, in chronological order of writing in addition to a biographical notice through M. H. A. Newman and Barbara Whitehead, and a mathematical appreciation via John Milnor. this can be by means of separate chapters on themes similar to linear connections; a style of acquiring basic representations for a projective connection; illustration of projective areas; convex areas within the geometry of paths; in the neighborhood homogeneous areas in differential geometry; and the decomposition of an infinitesimal crew. additionally integrated are chapters on in the community homogeneous areas in differential geometry; Maurer's equations; linear associative algebras; an expression of Hopf's invariant as an imperative; and normalizators of transformation groups.