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This is an introduction to geometrical topics that are useful in
applied mathematics and theoretical physics, including manifolds,
metrics, connections, Lie groups, spinors and bundles, preparing
readers for the study of modern treatments of mechanics, gauge
fields theories, relativity and gravitation. The order of
presentation corresponds to that used for the relevant material in
theoretical physics: the geometry of affine spaces, which is
appropriate to special relativity theory, as well as to Newtonian
mechanics, is developed in the first half of the book, and the
geometry of manifolds, which is needed for general relativity and
gauge field theory, in the second half. Analysis is included not
for its own sake, but only where it illuminates geometrical ideas.
The style is informal and clear yet rigorous; each chapter ends
with a summary of important concepts and results. In addition there
are over 650 exercises, making this a book which is valuable as a
text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students.
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