Differential Topology and Morse Theory
by Dirk Schuetz
Publisher: University of Sheffield 2009
Number of pages: 96
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These notes describe basic material about smooth manifolds (vector fields, flows, tangent bundle, partitions of unity, Whitney embedding theorem, foliations, etc...), introduction to Morse theory, and various applications.
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