Download or read book Introduction to Differential Geometry written by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 in the Princeton Mathematical Series. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book Tensor and Vector Analysis written by C. E. Springer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuming only a knowledge of basic calculus, this text's elementary development of tensor theory focuses on concepts related to vector analysis. The book also forms an introduction to metric differential geometry. 1962 edition.

Download or read book Introduction to Differential Geometry with Tensor Applications written by Dipankar De and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY WITH TENSOR APPLICATIONS This is the only volume of its kind to explain, in precise and easy-to-understand language, the fundamentals of tensors and their applications in differential geometry and analytical mechanics with examples for practical applications and questions for use in a course setting. Introduction to Differential Geometry with Tensor Applications discusses the theory of tensors, curves and surfaces and their applications in Newtonian mechanics. Since tensor analysis deals with entities and properties that are independent of the choice of reference frames, it forms an ideal tool for the study of differential geometry and also of classical and celestial mechanics. This book provides a profound introduction to the basic theory of differential geometry: curves and surfaces and analytical mechanics with tensor applications. The author has tried to keep the treatment of the advanced material as lucid and comprehensive as possible, mainly by including utmost detailed calculations, numerous illustrative examples, and a wealth of complementing exercises with complete solutions making the book easily accessible even to beginners in the field. Groundbreaking and thought-provoking, this volume is an outstanding primer for modern differential geometry and is a basic source for a profound introductory course or as a valuable reference. It can even be used for self-study, by students or by practicing engineers interested in the subject. Whether for the student or the veteran engineer or scientist, Introduction to Differential Geometry with Tensor Applications is a must-have for any library. This outstanding new volume: Presents a unique perspective on the theories in the field not available anywhere else Explains the basic concepts of tensors and matrices and their applications in differential geometry and analytical mechanics Is filled with hundreds of examples and unworked problems, useful not just for the student, but also for the engineer in the field Is a valuable reference for the professional engineer or a textbook for the engineering student

Download or read book An Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Elasticity written by Philippe G. Ciarlet and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: curvilinear coordinates. This treatment includes in particular a direct proof of the three-dimensional Korn inequality in curvilinear coordinates. The fourth and last chapter, which heavily relies on Chapter 2, begins by a detailed description of the nonlinear and linear equations proposed by W.T. Koiter for modeling thin elastic shells. These equations are “two-dimensional”, in the sense that they are expressed in terms of two curvilinear coordinates used for de?ning the middle surface of the shell. The existence, uniqueness, and regularity of solutions to the linear Koiter equations is then established, thanks this time to a fundamental “Korn inequality on a surface” and to an “in?nit- imal rigid displacement lemma on a surface”. This chapter also includes a brief introduction to other two-dimensional shell equations. Interestingly, notions that pertain to di?erential geometry per se,suchas covariant derivatives of tensor ?elds, are also introduced in Chapters 3 and 4, where they appear most naturally in the derivation of the basic boundary value problems of three-dimensional elasticity and shell theory. Occasionally, portions of the material covered here are adapted from - cerpts from my book “Mathematical Elasticity, Volume III: Theory of Shells”, published in 2000by North-Holland, Amsterdam; in this respect, I am indebted to Arjen Sevenster for his kind permission to rely on such excerpts. Oth- wise, the bulk of this work was substantially supported by two grants from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [Project No. 9040869, CityU 100803 and Project No. 9040966, CityU 100604].

Download or read book Tensors and Riemannian Geometry written by Nail H. Ibragimov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the experience of teaching the subject by the author in Russia, France, South Africa and Sweden. The author provides students and teachers with an easy to follow textbook spanning a variety of topics on tensors, Riemannian geometry and geometric approach to partial differential equations. Application of approximate transformation groups to the equations of general relativity in the de Sitter space simplifies the subject significantly.

Download or read book Differential Geometry and Tensors written by K.K. Dube and published by I. K. International Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give a simple, lucid, rigorous and comprehensive account of fundamental notions of Differential Geometry and Tensors. The book is self-contained and divided in two parts. Section A deals with Differential Geometry and Section B is devoted to the study of Tensors. Section A deals with: " Theory of curves, envelopes and developables. " Curves on surfaces and fundamental magnitudes, curvature of surfaces and lines of curvature. " Fundamental equations of surface theory. " Geodesics. Section B deals with: " Tensor algebra. " Tensor calculus. " Christoffel symbols and their properties. " Riemann symbols and Einstein space, and their properties. " Physical components of contravariant and covariant vectors. " Geodesics and Parallelism of vectors. " Differentiable manifolds, charts, atlases.

Download or read book TEXTBOOK OF TENSOR CALCULUS AND DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY written by PRASUN KUMAR NAYAK and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily intended for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, this textbook covers both geometry and tensor in a single volume. This book aims to provide a conceptual exposition of the fundamental results in the theory of tensors. It also illustrates the applications of tensors to differential geometry, mechanics and relativity. Organized in ten chapters, it provides the origin and nature of the tensor along with the scope of the tensor calculus. Besides this, it also discusses N-dimensional Riemannian space, characteristic peculiarity of Riemannian space, intrinsic property of surfaces, and properties and transformation of Christoffel’s symbols. Besides the students of mathematics, this book will be equally useful for the postgraduate students of physics. KEY FEATURES : Contains 250 worked out examples Includes more than 350 unsolved problems Gives thorough foundation in Tensors

Download or read book Introduction to Differential Geometry written by Joel W. Robbin and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is suitable for a one semester lecture course on differential geometry for students of mathematics or STEM disciplines with a working knowledge of analysis, linear algebra, complex analysis, and point set topology. The book treats the subject both from an extrinsic and an intrinsic view point. The first chapters give a historical overview of the field and contain an introduction to basic concepts such as manifolds and smooth maps, vector fields and flows, and Lie groups, leading up to the theorem of Frobenius. Subsequent chapters deal with the Levi-Civita connection, geodesics, the Riemann curvature tensor, a proof of the Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks theorem, as well as applications to flat spaces, symmetric spaces, and constant curvature manifolds. Also included are sections about manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature, the Ricci tensor, the scalar curvature, and the Weyl tensor. An additional chapter goes beyond the scope of a one semester lecture course and deals with subjects such as conjugate points and the Morse index, the injectivity radius, the group of isometries and the Myers-Steenrod theorem, and Donaldson's differential geometric approach to Lie algebra theory.

Download or read book Tensor Analysis on Manifolds written by Richard L. Bishop and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVProceeds from general to special, including chapters on vector analysis on manifolds and integration theory. /div

Download or read book An Introduction to Differential Geometry written by T. J. Willmore and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text employs vector methods to explore the classical theory of curves and surfaces. Topics include basic theory of tensor algebra, tensor calculus, calculus of differential forms, and elements of Riemannian geometry. 1959 edition.

Download or read book An Introduction to Differential Geometry written by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Introduction to Differential Geometry with Applications to Navier Stokes Dynamics written by Troy L Story and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Differential Geometry with applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics is an invaluable manuscript for anyone who wants to understand and use exterior calculus and differential geometry, the modern approach to calculus and geometry. Author Troy Story makes use of over thirty years of research experience to provide a smooth transition from conventional calculus to exterior calculus and differential geometry, assuming only a knowledge of conventional calculus. Introduction to Differential Geometry with applications to Navier-Stokes Dynamics includes the topics: Geometry, Exterior calculus, Homology and co-homology, Applications of differential geometry and exterior calculus to: Hamiltonian mechanics, geometric optics, irreversible thermodynamics, black hole dynamics, electromagnetism, classical string fields, and Navier-Stokes dynamics.

Download or read book Introduction to Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation written by Philippe G. Ciarlet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-08-25 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to give a thorough introduction to the most commonly used methods of numerical linear algebra and optimisation. The prerequisites are some familiarity with the basic properties of matrices, finite-dimensional vector spaces, advanced calculus, and some elementary notations from functional analysis. The book is in two parts. The first deals with numerical linear algebra (review of matrix theory, direct and iterative methods for solving linear systems, calculation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors) and the second, optimisation (general algorithms, linear and nonlinear programming). The author has based the book on courses taught for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students and the result is a well-organised and lucid exposition. Summaries of basic mathematics are provided, proofs of theorems are complete yet kept as simple as possible, and applications from physics and mechanics are discussed. Professor Ciarlet has also helpfully provided over 40 line diagrams, a great many applications, and a useful guide to further reading. This excellent textbook, which is translated and revised from the very successful French edition, will be of great value to students of numerical analysis, applied mathematics and engineering.

Download or read book Tensors Differential Forms and Variational Principles written by David Lovelock and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incisive, self-contained account of tensor analysis and the calculus of exterior differential forms, interaction between the concept of invariance and the calculus of variations. Emphasis is on analytical techniques. Includes problems.

Download or read book Introductory Differential Geometry For Physicists written by A Visconti and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-10-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the mathematics of differential geometry in a way more intelligible to physicists and other scientists interested in this field. This book is basically divided into 3 levels; level 0, the nearest to intuition and geometrical experience, is a short summary of the theory of curves and surfaces; level 1 repeats, comments and develops upon the traditional methods of tensor algebra analysis and level 2 is an introduction to the language of modern differential geometry. A final chapter (chapter IV) is devoted to fibre bundles and their applications to physics. Exercises are provided to amplify the text material.

Download or read book An Introduction to Differential Geometry With the Use of Tensor Calculus written by Luther Pfahler Eisenhart and published by Maugham Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY WITH USE OF THE TENSOR CALCULUS By LUTHER PFAHLER EISENHART. Preface: Since 1909, when my Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces was published, the tensor calculus, which had previously been invented by Ricci, was adopted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, and has been developed further in the study of Riemannian Geometry and various generalizations of the latter. In the present book the tensor calculus of cuclidean 3-space is developed and then generalized so as to apply to a Riemannian space of any number of dimensions. The tensor calculus as here developed is applied in Chapters III and IV to the study of differential geometry of surfaces in 3-space, the material treated being equivalent to what appears in general in the first eight chapters of my former book with such additions as follow from the introduction of the concept of parallelism of Levi-Civita and the content of the tensor calculus. LUTHER PFAHLER EISENHART. Contents include: CHAPTER I CURVES IN SPACE SECTION PAGE 1. Curves ami surfaces. The summation convention 1 2. Length of a curve. Linear element, 8 3. Tangent to a curve. Order of contact. Osculating plane 11 4. Curvature. Principal normal. Circle of curvature 16 5. TBi normal. Torsion 19 6r The Frenet Formulas. The form of a curve in the neighborhood of a point 25 7. Intrinsic equations of a curve 31 8. Involutes and evolutes of a curve 34 9. The tangent surface of a curve. The polar surface. Osculating sphere. . 38 10. Parametric equations of a surface. Coordinates and coordinate curves trT a surface 44 11. 1 Tangent plane to a surface 50 tSffDovelopable surfaces. Envelope of a one-parameter family of surfaces. . 53 CHAPTER II TRANSFORMATION OF COORDINATES. TENSOR CALCULUS 13. Transformation of coordinates. Curvilinear coordinates 63 14. The fundamental quadratic form of space 70 15. Contravariant vectors. Scalars 74 16. Length of a contravariant vector. Angle between two vectors 80 17. Covariant vectors. Contravariant and covariant components of a vector 83 18. Tensors. Symmetric and skew symmetric tensors 89 19. Addition, subtraction and multiplication of tensors. Contraction.... 94 20. The Christoffel symbols. The Riemann tensor 98 21. The Frenet formulas in general coordinates 103 22. Covariant differentiation 107 23. Systems of partial differential equations of the first order. Mixed systems 114 CHAPTER III INTRINSIC GEOMETRY OF A SURFACE 24. Linear element of a surface. First fundamental quadratic form of a surface. Vectors in a surface 123 25. Angle of two intersecting curves in a surface. Element of area 129 26. Families of curves in a surface. Principal directions 138 27. The intrinsic geometry of a surface. Isometric surfaces 146 28. The Christoffel symbols for a surface. The Riemannian curvature tensor. The Gaussian curvature of a surface 149 29. Differential parameters 155 30. Isometric orthogonal nets. Isometric coordinates 161 31...

Download or read book Manifolds Tensor Analysis and Applications written by Ralph Abraham and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to provide core material in nonlinear analysis for mathematicians, physicists, engineers, and mathematical biologists. The main goal is to provide a working knowledge of manifolds, dynamical systems, tensors, and differential forms. Some applications to Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid me chanics, electromagnetism, plasma dynamics and control thcory arc given in Chapter 8, using both invariant and index notation. The current edition of the book does not deal with Riemannian geometry in much detail, and it does not treat Lie groups, principal bundles, or Morse theory. Some of this is planned for a subsequent edition. Meanwhile, the authors will make available to interested readers supplementary chapters on Lie Groups and Differential Topology and invite comments on the book's contents and development. Throughout the text supplementary topics are given, marked with the symbols ~ and {l:;J. This device enables the reader to skip various topics without disturbing the main flow of the text. Some of these provide additional background material intended for completeness, to minimize the necessity of consulting too many outside references. We treat finite and infinite-dimensional manifolds simultaneously. This is partly for efficiency of exposition. Without advanced applications, using manifolds of mappings, the study of infinite-dimensional manifolds can be hard to motivate.