Lectures on Differential Geometry
by Wulf Rossmann
Publisher: University of Ottawa 2003
Number of pages: 221
Description:
This is a collection of lecture notes which the author put together while teaching courses on manifolds, tensor analysis, and differential geometry. He offers them to you in the hope that they may help you, and to complement the lectures.
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