Gross / Meinrenken Manifolds, Vector Fields, and Differential Forms

An Introduction to Differential Geometry
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-25409-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 347 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series

This textbook serves as an introduction to modern differential geometry at a level accessible to advanced undergraduate and master's students. It places special emphasis on motivation and understanding, while developing a solid intuition for the more abstract concepts. In contrast to graduate level references, the text relies on a minimal set of prerequisites: a solid grounding in linear algebra and multivariable calculus, and ideally a course on ordinary differential equations. Manifolds are introduced intrinsically in terms of coordinate patches glued by transition functions. The theory is presented as a natural continuation of multivariable calculus; the role of point-set topology is kept to a minimum.   Questions sprinkled throughout the text engage students in active learning, and encourage classroom participation. Answers to these questions are provided at the end of the book, thus making it ideal for independent study. Material is further reinforced with homework problems ranging from straightforward to challenging. The book contains more material than can be covered in a single semester, and detailed suggestions for instructors are provided in the Preface.

Zielgruppe

Upper undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gross, Gal

Meinrenken, Eckhard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Manifolds.- 3. Smooth maps.- 4. Submanifolds.- 5. Tangent spaces.- 6. Vector fields.- 7. Differential forms.- 8. Integration.- 9. Vector bundles.- Notions from set theory.- Notions from algebra.- Topological properties of manifolds.- Hints and answers to in-text questions.- References.- List of Symbols.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gal Gross  is a Ph.D. student in mathematics at the University of Toronto, working in combinatorics and algebra with a special interest in additive combinatorics. Gross' other mathematical interests include differential geometry, set theory and foundational questions.  Eckhard Meinrenken  is a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, working in the fields of differential geometry and mathematical physics. His contributions include a proof of the Guillemin-Sternberg conjecture in symplectic geometry and the development, with Alekseev and Malkin, of the theory of group-valued momentum maps. In 2002 he was an invited speaker at the ICM in Beijing, and in 2008 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Meinrenken's book  Clifford Algebras and Lie Theory  was published (c) 2013 in Springer's Ergebnisse series