Multivariate calculus and geometry

Publication date 9 February 1998

differential geometry multivariate analysis textbook

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to real functions (26-01)

This is a textbook on multivariate analysis which emphasizes the role of geometry on this subject. As the author says in the introduction, his aim was ``to write a short book focusing on basic principles while acquiring technical skills. Indeed he devotes a great care on proposing an easy approach to the underlying fundamental principles of this non-trivial argument. The book is structured in eighteen chapters which are self-contained even if they mutually support one another and all together they form a unified subject. Each chapter starts with an informal discussion which points out the motivations of the relative subject, presents easy examples which help the understanding and gradually introduces the general theory. The definitions are given in a style which tries to combine the strict rigour with an easy approach and are illustrated by the motivations. The author prefers to omit the general proofs, but gives many examples, short proofs of particular cases and emphasizes the role of the theoretical results in the applications to practical texts useful for the exercises. Each chapter has a list of proposed exercises, some of them are solved in details at the end of the book. Many figures illustrate the text. A useful index is enclosed. Any reference is given. The author achieves the aim to get intuitively clear a highly non-trivial subject. It is rare to find a text on multivariate analysis where the geometrical intuition is preserved so well. Even if the book is suggested for a short course, it can be very usefull as supplementary text for a more advanced course.

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