We describe the affine connections, geodesics and symmetries of various Ban
ach manifolds of tripotents in JB*-triples which include the C*-algebras an
d Hilbert spaces where the nonzero tripotents are respectively the partial
isometries and the extreme points of the closed unit ball. Mathematics Subj
ect Classification (1991): 46G20, 46L70, 58B20, 17C65.