This book is intended as an elementary introduction to differential manifolds. The authors concentrate on the intuitive geometric aspects and explain not only the basic properties but also teach how to do the basic geometrical constructions. An integral part of the work are the many diagrams which illustrate the proofs. The text is liberally supplied with exercises and will be welcomed by students with some basic knowledge of analysis and topology.

This book is based on several courses given by the authors since 1966. It introduces the reader to the representation theory of compact Lie groups. We have chosen a geometrical and analytical approach since we feel that this is the easiest way to motivate and establish the theory and to indicate relations to other branches of mathematics. Lie algebras, though mentioned occasionally, are not used in an essential way. The material as well as its presentation are classical; one might say that the foundations were known to Hermann Weyl at least 50 years ago. Prerequisites to the book are standard...

This book gives a fairly elementary introduction to the local theory of differentiable mappings and is suitable as a text for courses to graduates and advanced undergraduates.

Die ersten fünf Kapitel dieses neuen Lehrbuchs entsprechen nach Inhalt und Methode dem Standard einer modernen Vorlesung über Lineare Algebra. Der Leser gelangt aber nachher direkt zu den grundlegenden Aussagen der Linearen Algebra bei Ringen. Die Darstellung ist von Anfang an anschaulich und geometrisch, sie schreitet behutsam voran in der Abstraktion. In dem Kapitel über projektive Geometrie findet man im reellen und komplexen Fall Diskussionen der projektiven Räume und Quadriken, die inhaltsreich und wesentlich für die heutige Geometrie sind. Physiker finden eine Diskussion von...