Pub 2014-03-01 654 English World Publishing Company The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians physicists. engineers. and mathematical biologists The main goal is to provide.. a working knowledge of manifolds. dynamical systems. tensors. and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics. fluid mechanics. electromagnetism. plasma dynamics and control theory are given in Chapter 8. using both invariant and index notation. The current edition of the book does not deal with Riemannian geometry in much detail. and it does not treat Lie groups. principal bundles. or Morse theory. Some of this is planned for a subsequent edition. Meanwhile. the authors will make available to interested readers supplementary chapters on Lie Groups and Differential Topology and invite comments on the...
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