Learning Outcomes
Upon successfully completing the course, students will have acquired basic knowledge of the theory of differentiable manifolds. They will furthermore submerge into advanced subjects of differential geometry and solidify a deeper understanding of the relations between Geometry, Algebra and Analysis.
Course Content (Syllabus)
Differentiable Manifolds and smooth maps. Tangent and cotangent bundles. Immersiona and embeddings, submanifolds, distributions of the tangent bundle and Frobenius theorem, Lie groups and Lie algebras, Cartan calculus, Integration on manifolds and Stokes theorem.
Additional bibliography for study
1) Loring W. Tu, An introduction to Manifolds, Universitext, Springer 2011.
2) John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, GTM 218, Springer 2003.
3) D. Barden and Ch. Thomas, An Introduction to Differential Manifolds, Imperial College Press, 2003.
4) Lawrence Conlon, Differentiable Manifolds, Second Edition, Modern Birkhäuser Classics, Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2008.
5) Frank W. Warner, Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups, Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 94, Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1983.