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Intuitively, a foliation corresponds to a decomposition of a manifold into a union of connected, disjoint submanifolds of the same dimension, called leaves, which pile up locally like pages of a book. The theory of foliations, as it is known, began with the work of C. Ehresmann and G. Reeb, in the 1940's; however, as Reeb has himself observed, already in the last century P. Painleve saw the necessity of creating a geometric theory (of foliations) in order to better understand the problems in the
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- Author
- César Camacho, Alcides Lins Neto (auth.)
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Published
- 1985
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781461252924
- Category
- mathematics
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Stem
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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