Continuous Groups Of Transformations
by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart
Publisher: Princeton University Press 1933
ISBN/ASIN: 1406760390
Number of pages: 319
Description:
This book sets forth the general theory of Lie and his contemporaries and the results of recent investigations with the aid of the methods of the tensor calculus and concepts of the new differential geometry. The first three chapters contain in the main the results of the first period.
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