(almost) everything you wanted to know about them /
Anatole Katok, Vaughn Climenhaga
[Philadelphia] :
Mathematics Advanced Study Semesters,
c2008
xv, 286 p. :
ill. ;
22 cm
Student mathematical library ;
v. 46
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274) and index
Foreword: MASS and REU at Penn State University -- Various ways of representing surfaces and basic examples -- Combinatorial structure and topological classification of surfaces -- Differentiable structure on surfaces: real and complex -- Riemannian metrics and geometry of surfaces -- Topology and smooth structure revisited