Fundamentals of Differential Geometry.

Lang, Serge:

ISBN 10: 038798593X / ISBN 13: 9780387985930

Published by New York: Springer, 2001

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Series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics. xvii 535p big hardback in canary-yellow laminated boards, an excellent copy, a fresh copy, tight binding, pages clear and bright, mathematical diagrams and notation very clear and sharp, one slight mark to top edge, otherwise entirely like new Language: English Weight (g): 2130.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fundamentals of Differential Geometry.
• Publisher: New York: Springer
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038798593X
• ISBN 13: 9780387985930
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: As New
• 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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