《曲线与曲面的微分几何》是曲线和曲面局部微分几何学和整体几何学的一本引论，是大学微分几何课程的经典教材。它的内容和取材均相当丰富，习题充足完整，许多章节知识可以籍习题向下作延伸推广。在叙述方法上与传统方式有如下不同：较广泛地应用了线性代数的基本知识，在一定程度上强调了基本的几何事实，并不陷入方法技巧或机遇性的细节中。

This two-volume introduction to differential geometry, part of Wiley's popular Classics Library, lays the foundation for understanding an area of study that has become vital to contemporary mathematics. It is completely self-contained and will serve as a reference as well as a teaching guide. Volume 1 presents a systematic introduction to the field from a brief survey of differentiable manifolds, Lie groups and fibre bundles to the extension of local transformations and Riemannian connections. The second volume continues with the study of variational problems on geodesics through differential geometric aspects of characteristic classes. Both volumes familiarize readers with basic computational techniques.