A Short Course in Differential Topology
Seiten
2018
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42579-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42579-7 (ISBN)
This book offers a concise and modern introduction to differential topology, the study of smooth manifolds and their properties, at the advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level. The treatment throughout is hands-on, including many concrete examples and exercises woven into the text with hints provided to guide the student.
Manifolds are abound in mathematics and physics, and increasingly in cybernetics and visualization where they often reflect properties of complex systems and their configurations. Differential topology gives us the tools to study these spaces and extract information about the underlying systems. This book offers a concise and modern introduction to the core topics of differential topology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It covers the basics on smooth manifolds and their tangent spaces before moving on to regular values and transversality, smooth flows and differential equations on manifolds, and the theory of vector bundles and locally trivial fibrations. The final chapter gives examples of local-to-global properties, a short introduction to Morse theory and a proof of Ehresmann's fibration theorem. The treatment is hands-on, including many concrete examples and exercises woven into the text, with hints provided to guide the student.
Manifolds are abound in mathematics and physics, and increasingly in cybernetics and visualization where they often reflect properties of complex systems and their configurations. Differential topology gives us the tools to study these spaces and extract information about the underlying systems. This book offers a concise and modern introduction to the core topics of differential topology for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. It covers the basics on smooth manifolds and their tangent spaces before moving on to regular values and transversality, smooth flows and differential equations on manifolds, and the theory of vector bundles and locally trivial fibrations. The final chapter gives examples of local-to-global properties, a short introduction to Morse theory and a proof of Ehresmann's fibration theorem. The treatment is hands-on, including many concrete examples and exercises woven into the text, with hints provided to guide the student.
Bjørn Ian Dundas is Professor in the Mathematics Department at the Universitetet i Bergen, Norway. Besides his research and teaching, he is the author of three books.
1. Introduction; 2. Smooth manifolds; 3. The tangent space; 4. Regular values; 5. Vector bundles; 6. Constructions on vector bundles; 7. Integrability; 8. Local phenomena that go global; Appendix A. Point set topology; Appendix B. Hints or solutions to exercises; References; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises; 45 Halftones, black and white; 50 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 182 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 710 g |
| Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-42579-8 / 1108425798 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-42579-7 / 9781108425797 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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