Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 A Robot''s Arm
1.2 The Configuration Space of Two Electrons
1.3 State Spaces and Fiber Bundles
1.4 Further Examples
1.5 Compact Surfaces
1.6 Higher Dimensions
2 Smooth Manifolds
2.1 Topological Manifolds
2.2 Smooth Structures
2.3 Maximal Atlases
2.4 Smooth Maps
2.5 Submanifolds
2.6 Products and Sums
3 The Tangent Space
3.1 Germs
3.2 Smooth Bump Functions
3.3 The Tangent Space
3.4 The Cotangent Space
3.5 Derivations
4 Regular Values
4.1 The Rank
4.2 The Inverse Function Theorem
4.3 The Rank Theorem
4.4 Regular Values
4.5 Transversality
4.6 Sard''s Theorem
4.7 Immersions and Imbeddings
5 Vector Bundles
5.1 Topological Vector Bundles
5.2 Transition Functions
5.3 Smooth Vector Bundles
5.4 Pre-vector Bundles
5.5 The Tangent Bundle
5.6 The Cotangent Bundle
6 Constructions on Vector Bundles
7 Integrability
8 Local Phenomena that Go Global
Appendix A Point Set Topology
References
Index