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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
ISSN 1088-9485(e) ISSN 0273-0979(p)

     

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Book Information

Author(s): Arthur L. Besse
Title: Manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed
Additional book information: Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, vol. 93, Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, ix + 262 pp., 1978, $40.00. ISBN 0-3870-8158-5


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Ralph Abraham and Jerrold Marsden, Foundations of mechanics, 2nd ed., Benjamin Cummings, Reading, Mass., 1978. MR 515141
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V. I. Arnol'd, Mathematical methods of classical mechanics, Graduate Texts in Math., vol. 60, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978. MR 690288
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N. Bourbaki, Éléments de mathématique, Fasc. 24 Livre II, Chapitre 9, Formes sesquilineares et formes quadratiques, Hermann, Paris, 1969. MR 276436
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S. S. Chern, From triangles to manifolds, Amer. Math. Monthly 86 (1979), 339-349. MR 528789
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Ian N. Sneddon, Reivew of [2, 7], Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 2 (1980), 346-352.
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Shlomo Sternberg, Review of [l], Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 2 (1980), 378-387.
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W. Thiring, Classical dynamical systems, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978.
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A. Weinstein, On the volume of manifolds all of whose geodesics are closed, J. Differential Geom. 9 (1974), 513-517. MR 390968


Additional Information:

Reviewer(s):
Richard L. Bishop

Review Information:
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 11 (1984), 400-404.
DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-1984-15329-1
PII: S 0273-0979(1984)15329-1




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