Cách Tiếp Cận Hình Học Đối Với Các Dạng Vi Phân

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Pitzer College

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Mathematics

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Ẩn danh

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thesis

2011

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30 Point

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Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1. Guide to the Reader

2. So what is a differential form?

3. Generalizing the integral

4. What went wrong?

5. What about surfaces?

6. Polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinates

7. Parameterized surfaces in R3

8. Parameterized regions in R2 and R3

9. Coordinates for vectors

10. 2-Forms on Tp R3 (optional)

11. 2-Forms and 3-forms on Tp R4 (optional)

12. Algebraic computation of products

13. Differential Forms

13.1. Families of forms

13.2. Integrating differential 2-forms

13.4. Integrating 1-forms on Rm

13.5. Integrating n-forms on Rm

13.6. The change of variables formula

13.7. Summary: How to integrate a differential form

14. Differentiation of Differential Forms

14.1. The derivative of a differential 1-form

14.2. Derivatives of n-forms

14.4. Algebraic computation of derivatives

14.6. Application: Foliations and contact structures

15. How not to visualize a differential 1-form

16. Cells and chains

17. The generalized Stokes’ Theorem

18. Vector calculus and the many faces of the generalized Stokes’ Theorem

19. Application: Maxwell’s Equations

20. Forms on subsets of Rn

21. Forms on parameterized subsets

22. Forms on quotients of Rn (optional)

23. Defining manifolds

24. Differential forms on manifolds

25. Application: DeRham Cohomology

26. Application: Constructing invariants

26.2. The Hopf Invariant

26.3. The Godbillon–Vey Invariant

27. Differential Geometry via Differential Forms

27.2. Frame fields and Gaussian curvature

27.3. Parallel vector fields

27.4. The Gauss–Bonnet Theorem

Books For Further Reading

Solutions to Selected Exercises

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