¢ñ Manifolds, Tensors, and Exterior Forms
1 Manifolds and Vector Fields 3
2 Tensors and Exterior Forms 37
3 Integration of Differential Forms 95
4 The Lie Derivative 125
5 The Poincar¨¦ Lemma and Potentials 155
6 Holonomic and Nonholonomic Constraints 165
¢ò Geometry and Topology
7 R3 and Minkowski Space 191
8 The Geometry of Surfaces in R3 201
9 Covariant Differentiation and Curvature 241
10 Geodesics 269
11 Relativity, Tensors, and Curvature 291
12 Curvature and Topology: Synge¡¯s Theorem 323
13 Betti Numbers and De Rham¡¯s Theorem 333
14 Harmonic Forms 361
¢ó Lie Groups, Bundles, and Chern Forms
15 Lie Groups 391
16 Vector Bundles in Geometry and Physics 413
17 Fiber Bundles, Gauss\|Bonnet, and Topological Quantization 451
18 Connections and Associated Bundles 475
19 The Dirac Equation 491
20 Yang\|Mills Fields 523
21 Betti Numbers and Covering Spaces 561
22 Chern Forms and Homotopy Groups 583
