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Regional Geometry Institute Collection

Regional Geometry Institute Collection

1991 July
20 boxes 20 linear feet
Call no.: RG 25 M5 G3

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Regional Geometry Institute held at the Five Colleges in 1991 included a series of talks by noted mathematicians exploring the shape of space and related topics.

The videotapes in this collection were recorded at the Regional Geometry Institute organized by Five Colleges mathematics faculty and convened at Mount Holyoke in July 1991. The Institute sponsored a dozen speakers on the shape of space and related topics, most giving more than one lecture.

Gift of Rob Kusner, 2013

Subjects

GeometryMinimal surfacesRiemannian manifoldsSoap bubbles--MathematicsSpace--MathematicsSurfaces--MathematicsTopology

Contributors

Adams, ColinBanchoff, ThomasBerger, Marcel, 1927-Bourgignon, J.-P. (Jean-Pierre), 1947-Brakke, Kenneth A.Hoffman, DavidKarcher, Hermann, 1938-Morgan, Frank (Professor Mathematics, Williams College)Schwartz, JudahUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst. Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Center for Geometry, Analysis, Numerics and GraphicsWeeks, Jeffrey R., 1956-deTurck, Dennis M.

Types of material

Videotapes