From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity

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From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity edited by Lizhen Ji, Athanase Papadopoulos, Sumio Yamada. -
XXXIV, 647 p. 24 illus. online resource. Content notes : Preface -- Introduction -- 1.Athanase Papadopoulos: Looking backward: From Euler to Riemann -- 2.Jeremey Gray: Riemann on geometry, physics, and philosophy – some remarks -- 3.Hubert Goenner: Some remarks on a contribution to electrodynamics by Bernhard Riemann -- 4.Christian Houzel: Riemann's Memoir Über das Verschwinden der Theta-Functionen -- 5.Sumio Yamada: Riemann's work on minimal surfaces -- 6. Athanase Papadopoulos: Physics in Riemann's mathematical papers -- 7.Athanase Papadopoulos: Cauchy and Puiseux: Two precursors of Riemann -- 8.Athanase Papadopoulos: Riemann surfaces: Reception by the French school -- 9.Ken'ichi Ohshika: The origin of the notion of manifold: from Riemann's Habilitationsvortrag onward -- 10.Franck Jedrzejewski: Deleuze et la géométrie riemannienne : une topologie des multiplicités -- 11.Arkady Plotnitsky: Comprehending the Connection of Things: Bernhard Riemann and the Architecture of Mathematical Concepts -- 12.Feng Luo: The Riemann mapping theorem and its discrete counterparts -- 13.Norbert A'Campo, Vincent Alberge and Elena Frenkel: The Riemann–Roch theorem -- 14.Victor Pambuccian, Horst Struve and Rolf Struve: Metric geometries in an axiomatic perspective -- 15.Toshikazu Sunada: Generalized Riemann sums -- 16.Jacques Franchi: From Riemannian to Relativistic Diffusions -- 17.Andreas Hermann and Emmanuel Humbert: On the Positive Mass Theorem for closed Riemannian manifolds -- 18.Marc Mars: On local characterization results in geometry and gravitation -- 19.Jean-Philippe Nicolas: The conformal approach to asymptotic analysis -- 20.Lizhen Ji: Bernhard Riemann and his work. 9783319600390 * Global differential geometry. History of Mathematical Sciences. Differential Geometry. * Ji, Lizhen., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtPapadopoulos, Athanase., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtYamada, Sumio., edt, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt * Title