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By John M. Lee

ISBN-10: 1441999825

ISBN-13: 9781441999825

This ebook is an introductory graduate-level textbook at the concept of soft manifolds. Its aim is to familiarize scholars with the instruments they're going to desire in an effort to use manifolds in mathematical or clinical research—smooth buildings, tangent vectors and covectors, vector bundles, immersed and embedded submanifolds, tensors, differential kinds, de Rham cohomology, vector fields, flows, foliations, Lie derivatives, Lie teams, Lie algebras, and extra. The technique is as concrete as attainable, with images and intuitive discussions of the way one may still imagine geometrically concerning the summary suggestions, whereas making complete use of the strong instruments that glossy arithmetic has to offer.

This moment version has been widely revised and clarified, and the subjects were considerably rearranged. The booklet now introduces the 2 most vital analytic instruments, the rank theorem and the basic theorem on flows, a lot prior as a way to be used through the e-book. a couple of new themes were further, significantly Sard’s theorem and transversality, an evidence that infinitesimal Lie team activities generate worldwide team activities, a extra thorough examine of first-order partial differential equations, a quick therapy of measure concept for tender maps among compact manifolds, and an creation to touch structures.

Prerequisites comprise an exceptional acquaintance with common topology, the elemental workforce, and masking areas, in addition to uncomplicated undergraduate linear algebra and genuine research.