Manifolds, Vector Fields, and Differential Forms : An Introduction to Differential Geometry /

This textbook serves as an introduction to modern differential geometry at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate and master's students. It places special emphasis on motivation and understanding, while developing a solid intuition for the more abstract concepts. In contrast to graduate l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gross, Gal (Author), Meinrenken, Eckhard (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series,
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Manifolds
  • 3. Smooth maps
  • 4. Submanifolds
  • 5. Tangent spaces
  • 6. Vector fields
  • 7. Differential forms
  • 8. Integration
  • 9. Vector bundles
  • Notions from set theory
  • Notions from algebra
  • Topological properties of manifolds
  • Hints and answers to in-text questions
  • References
  • List of Symbols
  • Index.