Differential and Complex Geometry: Origins, Abstractions and Embeddings

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Differential and complex geometry are two central areas of mathematics with a long and intertwined history. This book, the first to provide a unified historical perspective of both subjects, explores their origins and developments from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.<div><div> </div><div>Providing a detailed examination of the seminal contributions to differential and complex geometry up to the twentieth-century embedding theorems, this monograph includes valuable excerpts from the original documents, including works of Descartes, Fermat, Newton, Euler, Huygens, Gauss, Riemann, Abel, and Nash. </div><div> </div><div>Suitable for beginning graduate students interested in differential, algebraic or complex geometry, this book will also appeal to more experienced readers. </div></div>

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