Generalized Symmetric Spaces by Kowalski, Oldrich - 1980

Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1980. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. Signed and dedicated by the author to Professor T. J. Willmore [see below]. 187 pages. Original printed card covers fine with minimal wear only, very slighly marked. Contents clean and tight, unmarked. A very good copy. Text in English. (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 805). From the library of the late Thomas James Willmore (Willmore was a renowned English geometer who held the post of professor of pure mathematics at Durham University from 1965 to his retirement in 1984. Two prominent themes in Willmore's mathematics are the study of harmonic spaces and what has been known for decades as the "Willmore conjecture")..