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A translation (from the Portuguese) of the second edition of Geometria riemanniana (Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988), a text on the basic language of and some fundamental theorems in Riemannian geometry. Includes a substantial number of exercises.
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