This book provides the necessary foundation for students interested in any of the diverse areas of mathematics which require the notion of a differentiable manifold. It is designed as a beginning grad
The first part of this book on Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups is written by E.B. Vinberg, V.V. Gorbatsevich, and O.V. Shvartsman. Various types of discrete subgroups of Lie groups arise in the theor
Expository books on the theory of Lie groups generally confine themselves to the local aspect of the theory.This limitation was probably necessary as long as general topology was not yet sufficiently