This book presents a comprehensive, encyclopedic approach to the subject of foliations, one of the major concepts of mod
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Table of contents :
Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Foliations on 2-Manifolds....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Local Theory....Pages 21-35
Morse-Smale Foliations....Pages 37-65
Foliations Without Holonomy....Pages 67-123
Invariants of Foliations....Pages 125-190
Curves on Surfaces....Pages 191-222
Non-compact Surfaces....Pages 223-237
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Ergodic Theory....Pages 241-259
Homeomorphisms of the Unit Circle....Pages 261-293
Diffeomorphisms of Surfaces....Pages 295-303
C*-Algebras....Pages 305-330
Quadratic Differentials....Pages 331-340
Flat Structures....Pages 341-351
Principal Curvature Lines....Pages 353-373
Differential Equations....Pages 375-382
Positive Differential 2-Forms....Pages 383-390
Control Theory....Pages 391-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-399
Riemann Surfaces....Pages 401-429
Back Matter....Pages 431-450