Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by John Lee

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Familiarizes students with the tools they need 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, and more.

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Introduction to Smooth Manifolds by John Lee

Familiarizes students with the tools they need 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, and more.

From the reviews of the second edition:

“It starts off with five chapters covering basics on smooth manifolds up to submersions, immersions, embeddings, and of course submanifolds… the book under review is laden with excellent exercises that significantly further the reader’s understanding of the material, and Lee takes great pains to motivate everything well all the way through … . a fine graduate-level text for differential geometers as well as people like me, fellow travelers who always wish they knew more about such a beautiful subject.” (Michael Berg, MAA Reviews, October, 2012)

John M. Lee is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he regularly teaches graduate courses on the topology and geometry of manifolds. He was the recipient of the American Mathematical Society's Centennial Research Fellowship and he is the author of four previous Springer books: the first edition (2003) of Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, the first edition (2000) and second edition (2010) of Introduction to Topological Manifolds, and Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature (1997).

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ISBN 13 9781441999818
ISBN 10 1441999817
Title Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
Author John Lee
Series Graduate Texts In Mathematics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Year published 2012-08-26
Number of pages 708
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