This book treats that part of Riemannian geometry related to more classical topics in a very original, clear and solid style. The author successfully combines the co-ordinate and invariant approaches to differential geometry, giving the reader tools for practical calculations as well as a theoretical understanding of the subject.
This book treats that part of Riemannian geometry related to more classical topics in a very original, clear and solid style. The author successfully combines the co-ordinate and invariant approaches to differential geometry, giving the reader tools for practical calculations as well as a theoretical understanding of the subject.
From the reviews of the first edition:
... The book is .. comprehensive and original enough to be of interest to any professional geometer, but I particularly recommend it to the advanced student, who will find a host of instructive examples, exercises and vistas that few comparable texts offer...
H.Geiges, Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 2002, Vol. 5/3, Issue 4
... I found the presentation insightful and stimulating. A useful paedagogical device of the text is to make much use of both the index and coordinate-free notations, encouraging flexibility (and pragmatism) in the reader. ... the book should be of use to a wide variaty of readers: the relative beginner, with perhaps an introductory course in differential geometry, will find his horizons greatly expanded in the material for which this prepares him; while the more experienced reader will surely find the more specialised sections informative.
Robert J. Low, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2002g
... Insgesamt liegt ein sehr empfehlenswertes Lehrbuch einerseits zur Riemannschen Geometrie und andererseits zur Theorie differenzierbarer Mannigfaltigkeiten vor, wegen der strukturierten Breite der Darstellung sehr gut geeignet sowohl zum Selbststudium fur Studierende mathematischer Disziplinen als auch fur Dozenten als Grundlage einschlagiger Lehrveranstaltungen.
P. Paukowitsch, Wien (IMN - Internationale Mathematische Nachrichten 190, S. 64-65, 2002)
M.M. Postnikov has written a well-structured and readable book with a satisfying sense of completeness to it. The reviewer believes this book deserves a place next to the already existing literature on Riemannian geometry, principally as a basis for teaching a course on abstract Riemannian geometry (after an introduction to differentiable manifolds) but also as a reference work. (Eric Boeckx, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 993 (18), 2002)