Differential Geometry with Applications to Mechanics and Physics /

"An introduction to differential geometry with applications to mechanics and physics. It covers topology and differential calculus in banach spaces; differentiable manifold and mapping submanifolds; tangent vector space; tangent bundle, vector field on manifold, Lie algebra structure, and one-p...

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Main Author: Talpaert, Yves (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2000.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"An introduction to differential geometry with applications to mechanics and physics. It covers topology and differential calculus in banach spaces; differentiable manifold and mapping submanifolds; tangent vector space; tangent bundle, vector field on manifold, Lie algebra structure, and one-parameter group of diffeomorphisms; exterior differential forms; Lie derivative and Lie algebra; n-form integration on n-manifold; Riemann geometry; and more. It includes 133 solved exercises."--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429179990