Geometry II

Marcel Berger

Geometry II 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 Department of Mathematics Evans Hall Univesity of California Berkeley, CA 94720 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

Corrected Fourth Printing 2009 ISBN 978-3-540-17015-0

e-ISBN 978-3-540-93816-3

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