Welcome to Steve Rosenberg's Home Page


Emeritus Professor
Email: (insert my two initials)@math.bu.edu



Research

My research interests in pure math are in differential geometry in finite and infinite dimensions, particularly with applications to/from mathematical physics. Recently, I've been looking at applications of differential geometry to statistics and machine learning, exotic characteristic classes and diffeomorphism groups of manifolds, and the Riemannian geometry of moduli spaces of pseudoholomorphic curves.













Here is a list of available articles.

My book, "The Laplacian on a Riemannian Manifold," now in its second (corrected) printing, is also available. The book covers Hodge theory, basics of differential geometry, heat flow on functions and forms, the heat equation/supersymmetric proof of the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, an overview of the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem, the zeta function for Laplacians and analytic torsion. There are lots of exercises. The price is $138 for hardcover, $61 for paperback, and $49 for eBook. Alternatively, you can view the book here. Feel free to download it, but consider making a donation to a good cause in lieu of buying the text. I would like to thank Cambridge University Press for allowing me to make the text available online, in contrast to some other math text publishers.

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