Differential manifolds. A basic approach for experimental physicists
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
zbMATH Open document ID: 1296.53001
DOI: 10.1142/8710
author: Paul Baillon
publication date: 2014-01-16T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 26-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-01
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 15-01
zbMATH DE Number: 6246081
zbMATH Keywords: differential manifolds
zbMATH Keywords: electro-weak interactions
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein equations
zbMATH Keywords: real functions
zbMATH Keywords: basic topology
zbMATH Keywords: vector spaces
zbMATH Keywords: complex numbers
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full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/8710
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review text: This book is divided in three parts, one of which is composed by several appendices. The first part, ``Manifolds'', includes a detailed course in differentiable manifolds. It covers the usual subjects (vector fields, tangent spaces, coordinates, metrics, one-form fields, tensor fields, wedge product of 1-linear forms, wedge product of vector fields, exterior differential, volume form, oriented integral, Lie bracket, covariant derivative, vector potential, differential of a bundle, parallel transport, curvature) and also some specific subjects for physicists like sections on the Lagrangian of the electro-weak interactions and applications and a section on relativity theory (Einstein equations in the vacuum). All this items are covered in the first 130 pages of the book. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe following 300 pages cover practically all the mathematical background needed to understand the first 130 pages. Within the title ``Some basic mathematics needed for manifolds'' there are 32 sections that cover the notion of map, continuity, the properties of the set of real numbers and of \(\mathbb{R} ^n\) and their topology, the set of complex numbers, semi-Riemannian metrics, real variable and multivariable functions and their properties, derivatives, integrals, differential equations, Taylor expansion, exponentials, but also groups, vector spaces, polynomials and eigenvalues of linear maps. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe last 130 pages include several appendices on foundations of mathematics that include topics on logic, quantificators, relations, set theory, properties of integers and rational numbers, and the recurrence principle. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is an expository book where everything is explained in detail, and written in such a way that at any moment within a definition, the statement of a proposition, a proof or a simple comment, the reader is given a ``link'' to every information (another definition, another proposition or remark, either in the ``basic mathematics''…
reviewed by: Ana Pereira do Vale
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6246081