Eberlein, Patrick,  1944- <br/><br/>
Geometry of nonpositively curved manifolds / 
Patrick B. Eberlein. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  c1996. 
 - 449 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Chicago lectures in mathematics .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [429]-436) and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Starting from the foundations, this text presents an almost entirely self-contained treatment of differentiable spaces of nonpositive curvature, focusing on the symmetric spaces in which every geodesic lies in a flat Euclidean space of dimension at least two. The book builds to a discussion of the Mostow Rigidity Theorem and its generalizations, and concludes by exploring the relationship in nonpositively curved spaces between geometric and algebraic properties of the fundamental group. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226181979 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226181987 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geometry, Differential.<br/>Manifolds (Mathematics)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA649  / .E24 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>516.3/62