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The notes presented here are based on lectures delivered over the years by the author at the universit e pierre et marie curie, paris, at the university of stuttgart, and at city university of hong kong. The differential equations appear as tools and as objects of study, with analytic and geometric advances fueling each other in the current explosion of progress in this area of geometry in the last twenty years. These lecture notes are the content of an introductory course on modern, coordinatefree differential. The treatment is condensed, and serves as a complementary source next to more comprehensive accounts that. Moreover, bytheir second year of graduatestudies students. The more descriptive guide by hilbert and cohnvossen 1is also highly recommended. What is the best self study book on differential geometry. Undergraduate differential geometry texts mathoverflow. Pdf these notes are for a beginning graduate level course in differential geometry. The condition that the differential daf is injective is equivalent to linear. That said, most of what i do in this chapter is merely to dress multivariate analysis in a new notation.
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