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Differential Forms (Dover Books on Mathematics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Henri Cartan
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 160612
Media: Paperback
Edition: Tra
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0486450104
Dewey Decimal Number: 515.37
EAN: 9780486450100
Publication Date: May 26, 2006
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Addressed to 2nd- and 3rd-year students, this work by a world-famous teacher skillfully spans the pure and applied branches, so that applied aspects gain in rigor while pure mathematics loses none of its dignity. Equally essential as a text, a reference, or simply as a brilliant mathematical exercise. 1971 edition.
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 Typical good french book February 10, 2007
L. CUNHA (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
20 out of 22 found this review helpful
When you skim through the table of contents you get excited about the way the book starts (with multilinear and alternating forms in vector spaces) and amazed about how far it goes (Stokes and Frobenius Theorems, calculus of variations, mechanics and differential geometry with moving frames).
Of course, the style is french formal. Not dry. You can tell that if you were a professional mathematician you would benefit pretty much from these writings. He uses sharp mathematical terms like Banach space, topological terms without being pedantic. But the formality level doens't close the subject hermetically from mere mortals.
The prose is good and it could get you all the way up through the subject. Another good reference for these subject is do Carmo's differential forms and Arnold's Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics which dedicates 40 pages explaining the subject aiming the application in Hamiltonian mechanics.
Excellent Book for beginner to expert June 9, 1997
30 out of 42 found this review helpful
I found this book to be one of the best around. Its treatment of differential forms was complete, starting at the fundamentals. I can recommend it to everyone wanting to understand forms
A classic on this topic February 8, 2008
Mario Arioli (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
''Differential Forms'' by H. Cartan is a classic evergreen book.
I found it a perennial source of inspiration.
 No Illustrations December 19, 2007
William J. Brown (Seattle, WA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Don't be fooled by the lovely cover. This is a geometry book with no illustrations. I found it quite dense, with a formula in nearly every second sentence. I think it requires quite a bit of preparation to understand and provides no intuition whatsoever. Not for the faint of heart.
What is prerequisite before reading this book? August 23, 2006
Hughe Chung (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario)
8 out of 51 found this review helpful
I bought this book a week ago and spent one and half hour for quick overview.
I'm studying intermediate Calculus with linear algebra.
Well, my impression was it's very difficult to read.
There are very few examples with solution, all the context written without diagrams.
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