Timeline for Reading list for basic differential geometry?
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| Apr 9, 2020 at 20:18 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I believe that Guillemin and Pollack's book was based on Minor's but targeting undergraduates. | |
| Aug 18, 2016 at 19:35 | comment | added | rfabbri | Guillemin and Pollack, and Milnor work concretely on subsets of Rˆn and are not the best references if you need to learn modern machinery; you might find essential concepts there, and learn them fast, but not enough motivation for, e.g., forms without the demands of greater generality. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 14:49 | comment | added | Xander Flood | I just want to point out that neither of these suggestions are actually about differential geometry, they cover only differential topology. Where differential topology is the study of smooth manifolds and smooth maps between them differential geometry is the study of linear-algebraic structures on smooth manifolds, which endow it with notions like length, area, angle, etc. | |
| Sep 15, 2011 at 18:55 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kim Morrison | ||
| Oct 17, 2009 at 0:30 | vote | accept | GMRA | ||
| Oct 13, 2009 at 0:18 | history | answered | Alon Amit | CC BY-SA 2.5 |