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Applied Differential Geometry

By William L. Burke

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1985
ISBN
0521269296, 9780521269292
LCC
QA641
Open Library ID
OL21496146M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3006019 bytes)
Pages
436\430
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

This is a self-contained introductory textbook on the calculus of differential forms and modern differential geometry. The intended audience is physicists, so the author emphasises applications and geometrical reasoning in order to give results and concepts a precise but intuitive meaning without getting bogged down in analysis. The large number of diagrams helps elucidate the fundamental ideas. Mathematical topics covered include differentiable manifolds, differential forms and twisted forms, the Hodge star operator, exterior differential systems and symplectic geometry. All of the mathematics is motivated and illustrated by useful physical examples.

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