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Elementary Topics in Differential Geometry

In the past decade there has been a significant change in the freshman/ sophomore mathematics curriculum as taught at many, if not most, of our colleges. This has been brought about by the introduction of linear algebra into the curriculum at the sophomore level. The advantages of using linear algebra both in the teaching of differential equations and in the teaching of multivariate calculus are by now widely recognized. Several textbooks adopting this point of view are now available and have been widely adopted. Students completing the sophomore year now have a fair preliminary under standing of spaces of many dimensions. It should be apparent that courses on the junior level should draw upon and reinforce the concepts and skills learned during the previous year. Unfortunately, in differential geometry at least, this is usually not the case. Textbooks directed to students at this level generally restrict attention to 2-dimensional surfaces in 3-space rather than to surfaces of arbitrary dimension. Although most of the recent books do use linear algebra, it is only the algebra of ~3. The student's preliminary understanding of higher dimensions is not cultivated.

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Elementary Topics in Differential Geometry

In the past decade there has been a significant change in the freshman/ sophomore mathematics curriculum as taught at many, if not most, of our colleges. This has been brought about by the introduction of linear algebra into the curriculum at the sophomore level. The advantages of using linear algebra both in the teaching of differential equations and in the teaching of multivariate calculus are by now widely recognized. Several textbooks adopting this point of view are now available and have been widely adopted. Students completing the sophomore year now have a fair preliminary under standing of spaces of many dimensions. It should be apparent that courses on the junior level should draw upon and reinforce the concepts and skills learned during the previous year. Unfortunately, in differential geometry at least, this is usually not the case. Textbooks directed to students at this level generally restrict attention to 2-dimensional surfaces in 3-space rather than to surfaces of arbitrary dimension. Although most of the recent books do use linear algebra, it is only the algebra of ~3. The student's preliminary understanding of higher dimensions is not cultivated.

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J.A.

Thorpe

Elementary Topics in Differential Geometry


Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics

1979, XIV, 256 p.

In the past decade there has been a significant change in the freshman/ sophomore
mathematics curriculum as taught at many, if not most, of our colleges. This has been
brought about by the introduction of linear algebra into the curriculum at the sophomore
level. The advantages of using linear algebra both in the teaching of differential equations
and in the teaching of multivariate calculus are by now widely recognized. Several
textbooks adopting this point of view are now available and have been widely adopted.
Students completing the sophomore year now have a fair preliminary under standing
of spaces of many dimensions. It should be apparent that courses on the junior level
should draw upon and reinforce the concepts and skills learned during the previous year.
Unfortunately, in differential geometry at least, this is usually not the case. Textbooks
directed to students at this level generally restrict attention to 2-dimensional surfaces in
3-space rather than to surfaces of arbitrary dimension. Although most of the recent books
do use linear algebra, it is only the algebra of ~3. The student's preliminary understanding
of higher dimensions is not cultivated.

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