Marcel Berger
Geometry I
Translated from the French by M. Cole and S. Levy
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Marcel Berger
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
35, route de Chartres
91440 Bures-sur-Yvette
France
Michael Cole
Academic Industrial Epistemology
17 St. Mary’s Mount
Leyburn, North Yorkshire DL8 5JB
England
Silvio Levy
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
17 Gauss Way
Berkeley, CA 94720-2211
USA
Title of the original French edition: Géométrie (vols. 1-5)
Published by CEDIC and Fernand Nathan, Paris
© CEDIC and Fernand Nathan, Paris 1977
Photograph of the author: © E. Boubat <<AGENCE TOP>>
Corrected Fourth Printing 2009 e-ISBN 978-3-540-93815-6
ISBN 978-3-540-11658-5
Mathematics Subject Classification (1991): 51-XX, 52-XX, 53-XX
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