Vector analysis versus vector calculus

DOI10.1007/978-1-4614-2200-6MaRDI QIDQ652742zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Antonio Galbis, Manuel Maestre

Publication date 16 December 2011

Published in Universitext (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2200-6

zbMATH Keywords

vector analysisvector calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to real functions (26-01) Functions of several variables (26Bxx) Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) Comprehensive works on analysis education (97I10)

Review text

This book is intended as a text for upper undergraduate students who have completed a standard introduction to differential and integral calculus of functions of several variables. The book can also be useful to engineering and physics students who know quite well how to handle the familiar theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss, but who would like to explore the topic further. The aim of this book is to facilitate the use of Stokes' theorem in applications. The text takes a differential geometric point of view and provides for the student a bridge between pure and applied mathematics by carefully building a formal rigorous development of the topic and following this through to concrete applications in two and three variables. Several practical methods and many solved exercises are provided. This book tries to show that vector analysis and vector calculus are not always at odds with one another. Key topics include: vectors and vector fields, line integrals, regular \(k\)-surfaces, flux of a vector field, orientation of a surface, differential forms, integration on surfaces, Stokes' theorem, divergence theorem.

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