Manifold Theory
by Peter Petersen
Publisher: UCLA 2010
Number of pages: 77
Description:
These notes are a supplement to a first year graduate course in manifold theory. These are the topics covered: Manifolds (Smooth Manifolds, Projective Space, Matrix Spaces); Basic Tensor Analysis; Basic Cohomology Theory; Characteristic Classes.
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