Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics (Hardcover): Projective Differential Geometry Old and New: From the Schwarzian Derivative to the Cohomology of Diffeomorphism Groups (Hardcover)

Valentin Ovsienko; V Ovsienko; S Tabachnikov
Cambridge University Press
9780521831864
0-521-83186-5

Ideas of projective geometry keep reappearing in seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. This book provides a rapid route for graduate students and researchers to contemplate the frontiers of contemporary.

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research in this classic subject. The authors include exercises and historical and cultural comments relating the basic ideas to a broader context.