Download or read book Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces written by Sigurdur Helgason and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1979-02-09 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book is intended as a textbook and reference work on three topics in the title. Together with a volume in progress on "Groups and Geometric Analysis" it supersedes my "Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces," published in 1962. Since that time several branches of the subject, particularly the function theory on symmetric spaces, have developed substantially. I felt that an expanded treatment might now be useful.