Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces explained

Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces
Title Orig:Structures métriques pour les variétés riemanniennes
Translator:Sean Michael Bates
Author:Mikhail Gromov
Country:United States
Language:English
Subject:Mathematics
Genre:Non-fiction
Publisher:Birkhäuser Boston
Pub Date:1999
Media Type:Print
Pages:xx+585 pp
Isbn:0-8176-3898-9

Metric Structures for Riemannian and Non-Riemannian Spaces is a book in geometry by Mikhail Gromov. It was originally published in French in 1981 under the title Structures métriques pour les variétés riemanniennes, by CEDIC (Paris).

History

The 1981 edition was edited by Jacques Lafontaine and Pierre Pansu. The English version, considerably expanded, was published in 1999 by Birkhäuser Verlag, with appendices by Pierre Pansu, Stephen Semmes, and Mikhail Katz. The book was well received[1] [2] and has been reprinted several times.

Notes and References

  1. https://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=1699320 Review
  2. http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/zmath/en/advanced/?q=an:0953.53002&format=complete Review