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Visual Differential Geometry and Forms: A Mathematical Drama in Five Acts
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FROM THE AUTHOR:All legitimate copies of VDGF produced by Princeton University Press are crisply printed on highquality paper. If you obtain a shoddily printed copy, its a fake: please return it and purchase a genuine PUP copy.An inviting, intuitive, and visual exploration of differential geometry and formsVisual Differential Geometry and Forms fulfills two principal goals. In the first four acts, Tristan Needham puts the geometry back into differential geometry. Using 235 handdrawn diagrams, Needham deploys Newtons geometrical methods to provide new geometrical explanations of the classical results. In the fifth act, he offers the first undergraduate introduction to Differential Forms that treats advanced topics in an intuitive and geometrical manner.Unique features of the first four acts include: four distinct geometrical proofs of the fundamentally important Global GaussBonnet theorem, providing a stunning link between local geometry and global topology; a simple, geometrical proof of Gausss famous Theorema Egregium; a complete geometrical treatment of the Riemann curvature tensor of an nmanifold; and a detailed geometrical treatment of Einsteins field equation, describing gravity as curved spacetime (General Relativity), together with its implications for gravitational waves, black holes, and cosmology.The final act provides an intuitive, geometrical introduction to Differential Forms, elucidating such topics as the unification of all the integral theorems of vector calculus; the elegant reformulation of Maxwells equations of electromagnetism in terms of 2forms; de Rham cohomology; differential geometry via Cartans method of moving frames; and the calculation of the Riemann tensor using curvature 2forms.Six of the seven chapters of Act V can be read completely independently from the rest of the book, providing a selfcontained introduction to Differential Forms.Requiring only basic calculus and geometry, Visual Differential Geometry and Forms provocatively rethinks the way this important area of mathematics should be understood and taught.
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