Fundamentals of Differential Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 191)

Lang, Serge

ISBN 10: 038798593X / ISBN 13: 9780387985930

Published by Springer, 1998

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Text is unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are lightly foxed. Binding is sturdy. Covers show some light wear around the corners. No dust jacket, as issued.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fundamentals of Differential Geometry (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 191)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038798593X
• ISBN 13: 9780387985930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

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Synopsis

The present book aims to give a fairly comprehensive account of the fundamentals of differential manifolds and differential geometry. The size of the book influenced where to stop, and there would be enough material for a second volume (this is not a threat). At the most basic level, the book gives an introduction to the basic concepts which are used in differential topology, differential geometry, and differential equations. In differential topology, one studies for instance homotopy classes of maps and the possibility of finding suitable differen­ tiable maps in them (immersions, embeddings, isomorphisms, etc. ). One may also use differentiable structures on topological manifolds to deter­ mine the topological structure of the manifold (for example, it la Smale [Sm 67]). In differential geometry, one puts an additional structure on the differentiable manifold (a vector field, a spray, a 2-form, a Riemannian metric, ad lib. ) and studies properties connected especially with these objects. Formally, one may say that one studies properties invariant under the group of differentiable automorphisms which preserve the additional structure. In differential equations, one studies vector fields and their in­ tegral curves, singular points, stable and unstable manifolds, etc. A certain number of concepts are essential for all three, and are so basic and elementary that it is worthwhile to collect them together so that more advanced expositions can be given without having to start from the very beginnings.

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