Differentiable Manifolds Paperback / softback
by Lawrence Conlon
Part of the Modern Birkhauser Classics series
Paperback / softback
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The basics of differentiable manifolds, global calculus, differential geometry, and related topics constitute a core of information essential for the first or second year graduate student preparing for advanced courses and seminars in differential topology and geometry.
Differentiable Manifolds is a text designed to cover this material in a careful and sufficiently detailed manner, presupposing only a good foundation in general topology, calculus, and modern algebra.
This second edition contains a significant amount of new material, which, in addition to classroom use, will make it a useful reference text.
Topics that can be omitted safely in a first course are clearly marked, making this edition easier to use for such a course, as well as for private study by non-specialists wishing to survey the field. The themes of linearization, (re) integration, and global versus local calculus are emphasized throughout.
Additional features include a treatment of the elements of multivariable calculus, formulated to adapt readily to the global context, an exploration of bundle theory, and a further (optional) development of Lie theory than is customary in textbooks at this level.
New to the second edition is a detailed treatment of covering spaces and the fundamental group. Students, teachers and professionals in mathematics and mathematical physics should find this a most stimulating and useful text.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:418 pages, XIV, 418 p.
- Publisher:Birkhauser Boston Inc
- Publication Date:11/01/2008
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- ISBN:9780817647667
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:418 pages, XIV, 418 p.
- Publisher:Birkhauser Boston Inc
- Publication Date:11/01/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780817647667