Differential Forms

Integration on Manifolds and Stokes's Theorem
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-1-4933-0212-3
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten

This text is one of the first to treat vector calculus using differential forms in place of vector fields and other outdated techniques. Geared towards students taking courses in multivariable calculus, this innovative book aims to make the subject more readily understandable. Differential forms unify and simplify the subject of multivariable calculus, and students who learn the subject as it is presented in this book should come away with a better conceptual understanding of it than those who learn using conventional methods.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate math majors and engineering majors through graduate level; anyone who uses calculus regularly.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weintraub, Steven H

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Differentialgeometrie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Differential Forms
The Algrebra of Differential Forms
Exterior Differentiation
The Fundamental Correspondence
Oriented Manifolds
The Notion Of A Manifold (With Boundary)
Orientation

Differential Forms Revisited
l-Forms
K-Forms
Push-Forwards And Pull-Backs

Integration Of Differential Forms Over Oriented Manifolds
The Integral Of A 0-Form Over A Point (Evaluation)
The Integral Of A 1-Form Over A Curve (Line Integrals)
The Integral Of A2-Form Over A Surface (Flux Integrals)
The Integral Of A 3-Form Over A Solid Body (Volume Integrals)
Integration Via Pull-Backs

The Generalized Stokes' Theorem
Statement Of The Theorem
The Fundamental Theorem Of Calculus And Its Analog For Line Integrals
Green's And Stokes' Theorems
Gauss's Theorem
Proof of the GST

For The Advanced Reader
Differential Forms In IRN And Poincare's Lemma
Manifolds, Tangent Vectors, And Orientations
The Basics of De Rham Cohomology

Appendix
Answers To Exercises
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Weintraub, Steven H
Steven H. Weintraub is a Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University, spent many years at Louisiana State University, and has been at Lehigh since 2001. He has visited UCLA, Rutgers, Oxford, Yale, Gottingen, Bayreuth, and Hannover. Professor Weintraub is a member of the American Mathematical Society and currently serves as an Associate Secretary of the AMS. He has written more than 50 research papers on a wide variety of mathematical subjects, and ten other books.