This is the third version of a book on differential manifolds. The first version appeared in 1962, and was written at the very beginning of a period of great expansion of the subject. At the time, I found no satisfactory book for the foundations of the subject, for multiple reasons. I expanded the book in 1971, and I expand it still further today. Specifically, I have added three chapters on Riemannian and pseudo Riemannian geometry, that is, covariant derivatives, curvature, and some applications up to the Hopf-Rinow and Hadamard-Cartan theorems, as well as some calculus of variations and applications to volume forms. I have rewritten the sections on sprays, and I have given more examples of the use of Stokes' theorem. I have also given many more references to the literature, all of this to broaden the perspective of the book, which I hope can be used among things for a general course leading into many directions. The present book still meets the old needs, but fulfills new ones.
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Contents
Pretace
CHAPTER Ⅰ Differentlal Calculus
1. Categories
2. Topological Vector Spaces
3. Derivatives and Composition of Maps
4. Integration and Taylor's Formula
5. The Inverse Mapping Theorem
CHAPTER Ⅱ Manitolds
1. Atlases, Charts, Morphisms
2. Submanifolds, Immersions, Submersions
3. Partitions of Unity
4. Manifolds with Boundary
CHAPTER Ⅲ Vector Bundles
1. Definition, Pull Backs
2. The Tangent Bundle
3. Exact Sequences of Bundles
4. Operations on Vector Bundles
5. Splitting of Vector Bundles
CHAPTER Ⅳ Vector Fields and Ditterential Equatlons
1. Existence Theorem for Differential Equations
2. Vector Fields, Curves, and Flows
3. Sprays
4. The Flow of a Spray and the Exponential Map
5. Existence of Tubular Neighborhoods
6. Uniqueness of Tubular Neighborhoods
CHAPTER Ⅴ Operations on Vector Flelds and Diffterential Forms
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