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1988 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Manifolds and Vector Bundles

verfasst von : Ralph Abraham, Jerrold E. Marsden, Tudor Ratiu

Erschienen in: Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications

Verlag: Springer New York

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We are now ready to study manifolds and the differential calculus of maps between manifolds. Manifolds are an abstraction of the idea of a smooth surface in Euclidean space. This abstraction has proved useful because many sets that are smooth in some sense are not presented to us as subsets of Euclidean space. The abstraction strips away the containing space and makes constructions intrinsic to the manifold itself. This point of view is well worth the geometric insight it provides.

Metadaten
Titel
Manifolds and Vector Bundles
verfasst von
Ralph Abraham
Jerrold E. Marsden
Tudor Ratiu
Copyright-Jahr
1988
Verlag
Springer New York
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1029-0_3