This book studies the differential geometry of surfaces with the goal of helping students make the transition from the standard university curriculum to a type of mathematics that is a unified whole, ...
beauty and vitality of mathematics. The emphasis is on development of ideas rather than problem solving skills. Topics vary, but are typically chosen from diverse areas such as geometry, number theory ...
Bondarenko — known within the group for what Arman calls his “crazy ideas” — has also proposed connections to distant branches of mathematics. The search for the smallest possible body of constant ...