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1567997
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Book Information:
Author:
Alfred Gray
Title:
Tubes
Additional book information:
Addison-Wesley, 1990, 280 pp., US$44.25. ISBN 0-201-15676-8.
Carl B. Allendoerfer and André Weil, The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for Riemannian polyhedra, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1943), 101–129. MR 7627, DOI 10.1090/S0002-9947-1943-0007627-9
Shiing-shen Chern, A simple intrinsic proof of the Gauss-Bonnet formula for closed Riemannian manifolds, Ann. of Math. (2) 45 (1944), 747–752. MR 11027, DOI 10.2307/1969302
[3] H. Poincaré, Sur la généralisation d'un thèorème élémentaire de géométrie, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 140 (1905), 113-117.
Hermann Weyl, On the Volume of Tubes, Amer. J. Math. 61 (1939), no. 2, 461–472. MR 1507388, DOI 10.2307/2371513
- [1]
- C. B. Allendoerfer and A. Weil, The Gauss-Bonnet theorem for Riemannian polyhedra, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 (1943), 101-129. MR 0007627 (4:169e)
- [2]
- S. S. Chern, A simple intrinsic proof of the Gauss-Bonnet formula for closed Riemannian manifolds, Ann. of Math. (2) 45 (1944), 747-752. MR 0011027 (6:106a)
- [3]
- H. Poincaré, Sur la généralisation d'un thèorème élémentaire de géométrie, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 140 (1905), 113-117.
- [4]
- H. Weyl, On the volume of tubes, Amer. J. Math. 61 (1939), 461-472. MR 1507388
Review Information:
Reviewer:
John Douglas Moore
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
27 (1992), 311-313
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1992-00312-9