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u/overconvergent · 3 pointsr/math

Axiomatic "non-euclidean geometry" is something that was studied hundreds of years ago but isn't really an area of math that one studies or learns about anymore. Today, "non-euclidean geometry" (like the geometry of spheres or the hyperbolic plane) is part of differential geometry. There are many undergraduate-level books on manifolds and differential geometry, but I've never really looked at these. One you could try is Elementary Differential Geometry by Pressley.

u/supersymmetricman · 2 pointsr/Physics

For elementary differential geometry, just calculus and linear algebra should be sufficient. You can use a book like this for that purpose. For more advanced differential geometry, you will need to know topology and analysis and maybe some algebra as well.

u/demarz · 2 pointsr/RPI

The content of the upper level math courses tend to vary depending on the professor and what they feel like teaching on any given year. I took fundamentals of Geometry with prof. Piper a few years ago. We covered most everything in this book (you can read through the index to get a good idea of what the course contained)

http://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Differential-Geometry-Undergraduate-Mathematics/dp/184882890X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1320607881&sr=8-2

We also did a bit with the more computational side of things, representing geometric transformations with quaternions or matrices, did Maple projects, etc.

u/idonotspeakenglish · 1 pointr/math

This is one is the best textbook for self-study I've find: Elementary Differential Geometry - A.N. Pressley.
Every self-study book should be like this one, well written and with answers to every exercises.