This book contains essential material that every graduate student must know. Written with Serge Lang's inimitable wit and clarity, the volume introduces the reader to manifolds, differential forms, Darboux's theorem, Frobenius, and all the central features of the foundations of differential geometry
Differentiable Manifolds an Introduction
β Scribed by F Brickell, R. S. Clark
- Book ID
- 127422927
- Publisher
- VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Category
- Library
- City
- Van Nostrand
- ASIN
- B000GP5YO6
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