Lectures On The Geometry Of Manifolds

2nd Edition

Liviu I Nicolaescu (Univ Of Notre Dame, Usa)

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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
01 October 2007

Geometry; Analytic geometry

"The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to some of the most frequently used techniques in modern global geometry. Suited to the beginning graduate student willing to specialize in this very challenging field, the necessary prerequisite is a good knowledge of several variables calculus, linear algebra and point-set topology.

The book's guiding philosophy is, in the words of Newton, that ""in learning the sciences examples are of more use than precepts"". We support all the new concepts by examples and, whenever possible, we tried to present several facets of the same issue.

While we present most of the local aspects of classical differential geometry, the book has a ""global and analytical bias"". We develop many algebraic-topological techniques in the special context of smooth manifolds such as Poincare duality, Thom isomorphism, intersection theory, characteristic classes and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

We devoted quite a substantial part of the book to describing the analytic techniques which have played an increasingly important role during the past decades. Thus, the last part of the book discusses elliptic equations, including elliptic Lpand Hoelder estimates, Fredholm theory, spectral theory, Hodge theory, and applications of these. The last chapter is an in-depth investigation of a very special, but fundamental class of elliptic operators, namely, the Dirac type operators.

The second edition has many new examples and exercises, and an entirely new chapter on classical integral geometry where we describe some mathematical gems which, undeservedly, seem to have disappeared from the contemporary mathematical limelight."

By: Liviu I Nicolaescu (Univ Of Notre Dame Usa)
Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Country of Publication: Singapore
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 167mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 1.039kg
ISBN: 9789812778628
ISBN 10: 9812778624
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 01 October 2007
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active