Analysis Situs

Analysis Situs
Author: Oswald Veblen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1931
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN:

'Analysis situs' is the name used by Poincaré when he was creating, at the end of the 19th century, the area of mathematics known today as topology. These lectures contain what is probably the first text where Poincaré's results and ideas were summarized, and an attempt to systematically present this difficult new area of mathematics was made. Of the two streams of topology existing at that time, point set topology and combinatorial topology, it is the latter to which this book is almost totally devoted. The first four chapters present, in detail, the notion and properties (introduced by Poincaré) of the incidence matrix of a cell decomposition of a manifold. The author's main goal is to show how to reproduce main topological invariants of a manifold and their relations in terms of the incidence matrix.

The Concept of a Riemann Surface

The Concept of a Riemann Surface
Author: Hermann Weyl
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 048613167X

This classic on the general history of functions combines function theory and geometry, forming the basis of the modern approach to analysis, geometry, and topology. 1955 edition.