{ "item_title" : "Foliations and Geometric Structures", "item_author" : [" Aurel Bejancu", "Hani Reda Farran "], "item_description" : "The theory of foliations of manifolds was created in the forties of the last century by Ch. Ehresmann and G. ReebER44]. Since then, the subject has enjoyed a rapid development and thousands of papers investigating foliations have appeared. A list of papers and preprints on foliations up to 1995 can be found in TondeurTon97]. Due to the great interest of topologists and geometers in this rapidly ev- ving theory, many books on foliations have also been published one after the other. We mention, for example, the books written by: I. TamuraTam76], G. Hector and U. HirschHH83], B. ReinhartRei83], C. Camacho and A.L. NetoCN85], H. KitaharaKit86], P. MolinoMol88], Ph. TondeurTon88],Ton97], V. RovenskiiRov98], A. Candel and L. ConlonCC03]. Also, the survey written by H.B. Lawson, Jr.Law74] had a great impact on the de- lopment of the theory of foliations. So it is natural to ask: why write yet another book on foliations? The answerisverysimple.Ourareasofinterestandinvestigationaredi?erent.The main theme of this book is to investigate the interrelations between foliations of a manifold on one hand, and the many geometric structures that the ma- foldmayadmitontheotherhand.Amongthesestructureswemention: a?ne, Riemannian, semi-Riemannian, Finsler, symplectic, and contact structures.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/40/203/719/1402037198_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "109.99", "online_price" : "109.99", "our_price" : "109.99", "club_price" : "109.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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