Publication

2002-01-15 - World Scientific Publishing Company

Language

English

Word Count

27,500 words, Guess

Page Count

110 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 7 more
  • LibraryThing307184
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001046629
  • OCLC Control Number646768373
  • OCLC Control Number47863244
  • Better World BooksP8-DBN-084
  • Better World Books9789810246853
  • Open LibraryOL9195385M

Classifications

  • LCCQA613.618 .Z43 2001
  • LCCQA613.618 .Z43 2001eb
  • LCCQA613.618.Z43 2001

Description

"This book is based on the notes of a graduate course on differential geometry which the author gave at the Nankai Institute of Mathematics. It consists of two parts: the first part contains an introduction to the geometric theory of characteristic classes due to Shiing-shen Chern and Andre Weil, as well as a proof of the Gauss Bonnet Chern theorem based on the Mathai Quillen construction of Thom forms; the second part presents analytic proofs of the Poincare Hopf index formula, as well as the Morse inequalities based on deformations introduced by Edward Witten.". "Readership: Graduate students and researchers in differential geometry, topology and mathematical physics."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

The theory of characteristic classes of vector bundles over smooth manifolds plays important roles in topology and geometry.

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