Geometric Methods and Applications

Preface.- Introduction.- Basics of Affine Geometry.- Properties of Convex Sets, A Glimpse.- Embedding an Affine Space in a Vector Space.- Basics of Projective Geometry.- Basics of Euclidean Geometry.- The Cartan-Dieudonné Theorem.- Quaternions and Rotations.- Dirichlet-Voronoi Diagrams.- Basics of Hermitian Geometry.- Spectral Theorems.- Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Polar Form.- Applications of Euclidean Geometry.- Basics of Classical Lie Groups.- Basics of the Differential Geometry of Curves.- Basics of the Differential Geometry of Surfaces.- Appendix.- Bibliography.- Index.

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