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Fundamentals of differential geometry

Serge Lang
The present book aims to give a fairly comprehensive account of the fundamentals of differential manifolds and differential geometry. 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.
Print Book, English, ©1999
Springer, New York, ©1999
Pregrado
xvii, 535 p. : il. ; 25 cm.
9780387985930, 038798593X
318414592
I General Differential Theory.- I Differential Calculus.- II Manifolds.- III Vector Bundles.- IV Vector Fields and Differential Equations.- V Operations on Vector Fields and Differential Forms.- VI The Theorem of Frobenius.- II Metrics, Covariant Derivatives, and Riemannian Geometry.- VII Metrics.- VIII Covariant Derivatives and Geodesics.- IX Curvature.- X Jacobi Lifts and Tensorial Splitting of the Double Tangent Bundle.- XI Curvature and the Variation Formula.- XII An Example of Seminegative Curvature.- XIII Automorphisms and Symmetries.- XIV Immersions and Submersions.- III Volume Forms and Integration.- XV Volume Forms.- XVI Integration of Differential Forms.- XVII Stokes’ Theorem.- XVIII Applications of Stokes’ Theorem.
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