This note covers
the following topics: Smooth manifolds and smooth maps, Tangent spaces and differentials ,
Regular and singular values , Manifolds with boundary, Immersions
and embeddings , Degree mod 2 , Orientation of manifolds and
Applications of degree.
This
note explains the following topics: preliminaries, Different homology theories and their
interaction, Classifying spaces, An introduction to symplectic topology.
This book gives
a deeper account of basic ideas of differential topology than usual in
introductory texts. Also many more examples of manifolds like matrix groups
and Grassmannians are worked out in detail. Topics covered includes:
Continuity, compactness and connectedness, Smooth manifolds and maps, Regular
values and Sards theorem, Manifolds with boundary and orientations, Smooth homotopy and vector bundles, Intersection numbers, vector fields and Euler
characteristic.
The
first half of the book deals with degree theory, the Pontryagin construction,
intersection theory, and Lefschetz numbers. The second half of the book is
devoted to differential forms and deRham cohomology.