From Riemann to Differential Geometry and Relativity

Content: Preface.- Introduction.- 1.Athanase Papadopoulos: Looking backward: From Euler to Riemann .- 2.Jeremey Gray: Riemann on geometry, physics, and philosophy - some remarks.- 3.Hubert Goenner: Some remarks on a contribution to electrodynamics by Bernhard Riemann.- 4.Christian Houzel: Riemann\'s Memoir UEber das Verschwinden der Theta-Functionen.- 5.Sumio Yamada: Riemann\'s work on minimal surfaces.- 6. Athanase Papadopoulos: Physics in Riemann\'s mathematical papers.- 7.Athanase Papadopoulos: Cauchy and Puiseux: Two precursors of Riemann.- 8.Athanase Papadopoulos: Riemann surfaces: Reception by the French school.- 9.Ken\'ichi Ohshika: The origin of the notion of manifold: from Riemann\'s Habilitationsvortrag onward.- 10.Franck Jedrzejewski: Deleuze et la geometrie riemannienne : une topologie des multiplicites.- 11.Arkady Plotnitsky: Comprehending the Connection of Things: Bernhard Riemann and the Architecture of Mathematical Concepts.- 12.Feng Luo: The Riemann mapping theorem and its discrete counterparts.- 13.Norbert A\'Campo, Vincent Alberge and Elena Frenkel: The Riemann-Roch theorem.- 14.Victor Pambuccian, Horst Struve and Rolf Struve: Metric geometries in an axiomatic perspective.- 15.Toshikazu Sunada: Generalized Riemann sums.- 16.Jacques Franchi: From Riemannian to Relativistic Diffusions.- 17.Andreas Hermann and Emmanuel Humbert: On the Positive Mass Theorem for closed Riemannian manifolds.- 18.Marc Mars: On local characterization results in geometry and gravitation.- 19.Jean-Philippe Nicolas: The conformal approach to asymptotic analysis.- 20.Lizhen Ji: Bernhard Riemann and his work.