Smooth Manifolds 1st Edition

The previous reviewer is correct -- all the detailed calculations are provided in excruciating detail. But let me play devil's advocate. Anyone who is going to master manifold theory and/or Riemannian geometry has to do these calculations at least once to grok the subject properly. Most of the grad texts elide over the detailed calculations -- which can be perplexing for the mathematically immature. This book *does* serve a purpose -- if only as a reference text for the detail, should one get stumped for some reason. It cannot, however, serve as a primary text. I too prefer authors like Tu, Jost, Boothby, and Lee (and all these can serve as primary texts). That doesn't mean this book is devoid of merit.

This book attempts to present differentiable manifolds to mathematical beginners - an admirable goal. Some readers may find the style - showing all the details of involved calculations, for example - admirable, and helpful in learning the subject. I am not a beginner and having two pages of equations that I can easily do myself is distracting. One can view this as the other side of the spectrum from one of Lang's books on the subject (almost all the details are left out). There are books in between, for example Warner, Boothby, Bishop and Crittenden, Lee to name a few that are more to my taste.

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Excellent ouvrage ! Pédagogie assumée car tous les concepts sont présentés à partir d'un niveau minimum requis.! Outil efficace pour plonger dans ces notions et poursuivre ! Une référence en ce domaine ! Service sur Marketplace très satisfaisant !