An Introduction to Differential Manifolds

by Dennis Barden and Charles B. Thomas

Book Overview

This invaluable book, based on the many years of teaching experience of both authors, introduces the reader to the basic ideas in differential topology. Among the topics covered are smooth manifolds and maps, the structure of the tangent bundle and its associates, the calculation of real cohomology groups using differential forms (de Rham theory), and applications such as the Poincar -Hopf theorem relating the Euler number of a manifold and the index...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1860943551
• ISBN13: 9781860943553
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 8.9"