Introduction to Geometry and Topology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)

This book provides an introduction to topology, differential topology, and differential geometry. It is based on manuscripts refined through use in a variety of lecture courses. The first chapter covers elementary results and concepts from point-set topology. An exception is the Jordan Curve Theorem, which is proved for polygonal paths and is intended to give students a first glimpse into the nature of deeper topological problems. The second chapter of the book introduces manifolds and Lie groups, and examines a wide assortment of examples. Further discussion explores tangent bundles, vector bundles, differentials, vector fields, and Lie brackets of vector fields. This discussion is deepened and expanded in the third chapter, which introduces the de Rham cohomology and the oriented integral and gives proofs of the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem, the Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem, and Stokes's integral formula. The fourth and final chapter is devoted to the fundamentals of differential geometry and traces the development of ideas from curves to submanifolds of Euclidean spaces. Along the way, the book discusses connections and curvature--the central concepts of differential geometry. The discussion culminates with the Gauss equations and the version of Gauss's theorema egregium for submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension. This book is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates in mathematics and physics and is intended as the template for a one- or two-semester bachelor's course.

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser Verlag AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Compact Textbooks in Mathematics
Release date:	July 2018
First published:	2018
Translators:	Walker Stern
Authors:	Werner Ballmann
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	169
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-480982-5
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Numerical analysis Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Differential & Riemannian geometry Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Geometry > Analytic geometry Promotions
LSN:	3-03-480982-4
Barcode:	9783034809825

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