Advanced calculus. Differential calculus and Stokes' theorem (Q531030)

``This book is an outgrowth of a Calculus III course'' which serves also as ``a gentle introduction to the theory of differential forms and prepare the reader to delve into more advanced topics from differential geometry and mathematical physics''. The book is ``intended for students who have already completed one semester of Elementary Linear Algebra and two semester long courses in Calculus''. ``The book begins with an introductory chapter on basic topics which are recurrent in the reminder of the book. Several of those topics may already be familiar to some readers. In order to provide an incremental progression in the blending of Linear Algebra and Calculus, sprinkled with differential forms theory, the next three chapters discuss almost exclusively vector functions of one variable and culminate with the Fundamental Theorem of Line Integrals. Chapter 3 is the cornerstone for the whole book and it uses tangent vectors to vector functions to introduce tangent spaces to curves, \(\mathbb{R}^n\) and to surfaces. It is then possible to define differentials and \(1\)-forms as acting on tangent vectors. The second part of the book is made up of Chapters 5 and 6 and focuses on differential mappings from \(\mathbb{R}^n\) to \(\mathbb{R}^m\). Chapters 7 through 9 introduce, in a blended way, additional concepts of differential forms theory along with the theory of multiple integrals. Finally, Chapter 10 puts the results from the previous chapters together in the statement and proof of Stokes' theorem (Green, Classical and Divergence) using differential forms and exterior derivatives. The statement is also rewritten in terms of the classical differential operators.'' All the introduced concepts are first discussed in the one-dimenional case, then in the cases of two and three dimensions; the general case (of \(k\)-forms in \(n\) dimensions) is just outlined. All the discussions are supported by numerous examples and exercises, pictures and physical interpretations. The technique of computations in the standard curvilinear coordinate systems in \(\mathbb{R}^2\) and \(\mathbb{R}^3\) as well as calculating some standard types of multiple integrals are worked out. Therefore, the book can be of use also for preparing tutorials for Calculus III courses. All citations are taken from author's preface.