Tubes (Paperback, 2, Softcover Repri)

1 An Introduction to Weyl's Tube Formula.- 3 The Riccati Equation for Second Fundamental Forms.- 4 The Proof of Weyl's Tube Formula.- 5 The Generalized Gauss-Bonnet Theorem.- 6 Chern Forms and Chern Numbers.- 7 The Tube Formula in the Complex Case.- 8 Comparison Theorems for Tube Volumes.- 9 Power Series Expansions for Tube Volumes.- 10 Steiner's Formula.- 11 Mean-value Theorems.- Appendix A.- A.2 Moments.- A.3 Computation of the Volume of a Geodesic Ball.- Appendix B.- Notation Index.- Name Index.