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| Apr 11, 2011 at 7:52 | comment | added | Javier Álvarez | @ Georges Elencwajg: sure, Frankel's book is great and that is why I included it in my recommendations since I also bought it and used it. Nevertheless when I started to learn mathematics on its own I was coming from a background in general relativity and the like, so at that time Frankel's seemed to me a little bit harder than others like Nakahara and did not cover topics I liked like complex manifolds, index theorems and applications to gauge theory. But Frankel's is a GREAT book now that I know enough of the subject! | |
| Apr 11, 2011 at 1:21 | comment | added | Toussaint | I'll make sure I have it too. Javier has given a very exhaustive and detailed list. since it's not easy to choose, it's better then I have this one as you have mentioned it. Furthermore I'm more on the physics side than the pure mathematics side. Thanks | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 22:59 | comment | added | Georges Elencwajg | Javier doesn't seem to like the book as much as I do and this difference of point of view is of course quite healthy and welcome on this site. Since he mentions Frankel's notations, I would like to add that on my part I find them quite orthodox, clear and even elegant. | |
| Apr 10, 2011 at 22:06 | history | edited | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2011 at 20:21 | history | answered | Georges Elencwajg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |