nLab Bernhard Riemann

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Envisioning the modern foundations of differential geometry via the notion of (differentiable, smooth) manifolds and of what camed to be called Riemannian geometry:

• Bernhard Riemann, Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen, Göttingen (1845) [doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35121-1]

  Engl. transl: William Clifford: On the hypotheses which underlie geometry, Nature VIII (1873) 183-184 [doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26042-6]

Related entries

• manifold, smooth manifold

• Riemannian geometry, Riemannian metric

• Riemann conjecture

• Riemann surface

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