Introduction to Smooth Manifolds

by John M. Lee

Book Overview

This book is an introductory graduate-level textbook on the theory of smooth manifolds. Its goal is to familiarize students with the tools they will need in order to use manifolds in mathematical or scientific research--- smooth structures, tangent vectors and covectors, vector bundles, immersed and embedded submanifolds, tensors, differential forms, de Rham cohomology, vector fields, flows, foliations, Lie derivatives, Lie groups, Lie algebras,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441999817
• ISBN13: 9781441999818
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 2.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"