Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint

Differential Topology by Andrew Kobin

This note covers Smooth manifolds, Regular values, Transversality and embeddings, Vector bundles.

Author(s): Andrew Kobin

52 Pages

Lectures on differential topology by Alexander Kupers

The contents include: Spheres in Euclidean space, Smooth manifolds, Submanifolds and tori, Smooth maps and their derivatives, Tangent bundles, Immersions and submersions, Quotients and coverings, Three further examples of manifolds, Partitions of unity and the weak Whitney embedding theorem, Transversality and the improved preimage theorem, Stable and generic classes of smooth maps, Transverse maps are generic, Knot theory, Orientations and integral intersection theory, Integration on manifolds, De Rham cohomology, Invariant forms in de Rham cohomology, First fundamental theorem of Morse theory, Second fundamental theorem of Morse theory, Outlook.

Author(s): Alexander Kupers

279 Pages

Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint

This PDF covers the following topics related to Differential Topology : Smooth manifolds and smooth maps, Tangent spaces and derivatives, Regular values, The fundamental theorem of algebra, The theorem of Sard and Brown, Manifolds with boundary, The Brouwer fixed point theorem, Proof of Sard's theorem, The degree modulo 2 of a mapping, Smooth homotopy and smooth isotopy, Oriented manifolds, The Brouwer degree, Vector fields and the Euler number, Framed cobordism, the Pontryagin construction, The Hopf theorem, Exercise.

Author(s): John W. Milnor, Princeton University

77 Pages

Differential topology Lecture notes (PDF 20p)

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.

Author(s): Sergei Tabachnikov

20 Pages