Luther Pfahler Eisenhart: 3 books

Non-Riemannian Geometry deals basically with manifolds dominated by the geometry of paths developed by the author, Luther Pfahler Eisenhart, and Oswald Veblen, who were faculty colleagues at Princeton University during the early twentieth century. Eisenhart played an active role in developing Princeton's...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Created especially for graduate students, this introductory treatise on differential geometry has been a highly successful textbook for many years. Its unusually detailed and concrete approach includes a thorough explanation of the geometry of curves and surfaces, concentrating on problems that will be most helpful to students. 1909 edition.