This carefully written book is an introduction to the beautiful ideas and results of differential geometry. The first half covers the geometry of curves and surfaces, which provide much of the motivation and intuition for the general theory. The second part studies the geometry …
The authors consider indecomposable degree $n$ covers of Riemann surfaces with monodromy group an alternating or symmetric group of degree $d$. They show that if the cover has five or more branch points then the genus grows rapidly with $n$ unless either $d = n$ or the curves ha…
The embeddability and structure of all locally compact one-to-one continuous metric (equivalently, Hausdorff) images of the real line are studied. The structure of such spaces is utilized to obtain, for example, necessary and sufficient conditions that they be embeddable in the …