
Writing Small Omegas
Elie Cartan's Contributions to the Theory of Continuous Groups 1894-1926
Description
Key Features
- Discusses the origins of the theory of moving frames and the geometrical theory of Lie groups
- Reviews Cartan’s revolutionary contributions to Lie group theory and differential geometry
- Evaluates many unpublished sources that shed light on important aspects of the historical development of Lie algebras
Readership
1st year PhD students, advanced graduate students and tenured mathematicians and historians of mathematics with an interest in differential geometry, Lie algebras and continuous groups
Table of Contents
1. Lie on the backstage
2. Cartan’s doctoral dissertation
3. Infinite Continuous Groups 1883-1902
4. Exterior Differential Systems
5. Cartan’s Theory (1902-1909)
6. The method of moving frames
7. The geometry of continuous groups
8. Conclusion
Product details
- No. of pages: 304
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: October 24, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128142448
- eBook ISBN: 9780128142745