The theory of affine connections is, roughly speaking, a generalization of certain concepts of parallelism and differentiation defined in plane differential geometry, to the differential geometry of surfaces, and, more generally, to the geometry of differentiable manifolds. It is the purpose of this essay to relate the various stages of this generalization, and to present the essentials of the classical theory of affine connections on a differentiable manifold. [...]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.118272 |
| Date | January 1966 |
| Creators | Auer, J. W. |
| Contributors | Rattray, B. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Mathematics.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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