A short course in differential topology /

"Preface In his inaugural lecture in 1854, Riemann introduced the concept of an "n fach ausgedehnten Grösse" - roughly something that has "n degrees of freedom" and which we now would call an n-dimensional manifold. Examples of manifolds are all around us and arise in many a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dundas, B. I. (Bjørn Ian) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Series:Cambridge mathematical textbooks.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Smooth manifolds
  • The tangent space
  • Regular values
  • Vector bundles
  • Constructions on vector bundles
  • Integrability
  • Local phenomena that go global.