Differential topology : an introduction /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Gauld, David B.
Edition:Dover ed.
Imprint:Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2006.
Description:vii, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Dover books on mathematics
Dover books on mathematics.
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7929805
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:048645021X (pbk.)
9780486450216 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: New York : M. Dekker, 1982.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. What Is Topology?
  • 2. Topological Spaces
  • 3. Some Topological Properties
  • 4. Some Advanced Calculus
  • 5. Differentiable Manifolds
  • 6. Orientability
  • 7. Submanifolds and an Embedding Theorem
  • 8. Tangent Spaces
  • 9. Critical Points Again
  • 10. Vector Fields and Integral Curves
  • 11. Surgery
  • 12. The Trace of a Surgery
  • 13. Surgery on a Surface
  • 14. Classification of Orientable Surfaces
  • 15. Whitney's Embedding Theorem
  • Appendix A. The Unproved Theorems
  • Appendix B. Further Topics
  • Notation
  • Bibliography
  • Index