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Riemannian Manifolds with Positive Sectional Curvature

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Geometry of Manifolds with Non-negative Sectional Curvature

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Of special interest in the history of Riemannian geometry have been manifolds with positive sectional curvature. In these notes we give a survey of this subject and recent developments.

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    These are notes from a series of lectures given in Guanajuato, Mexico in 2010. The author was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and by the Mexican National Academy of Sciences.

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Ziller, W. (2014). Riemannian Manifolds with Positive Sectional Curvature. In: Geometry of Manifolds with Non-negative Sectional Curvature. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 2110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06373-7_1

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