This book represents
course notes for a one semester course at the undergraduate level giving an
introduction to Riemannian geometry and its principal physical application,
Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The background assumed is a good
grounding in linear algebra and in advanced calculus, preferably in the language
of differential forms.
This note covers the following
topics: What is a manifold, Analysis on Riemannian manifolds, Geodesics and
curvature, The Bishop volume comparison theorem.