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Product Description: The book conveys a distinctive approach, stimulating readers to develop a broader, deeper understanding of mathematics through active participation—including discovery, discussion, and writing about fundamental ideas. It provides a series of interesting, challenging problems, then encourages readers to gather their reasonings and understandings of each problem...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The only book that introduces differential geometry through a combination of an intuitive geometric foundation, a rigorous connection with the standard formalisms, computer exercises with Maple, and a problems-based approach. Starting with basic geometric ideas, Differential Geometry uses basic intuitive geometry as a starting point to make the material more accessible and the formalism more meaningful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The book conveys a distinctive approach, stimulating readers to develop a broader, deeper understanding of mathematics through active participation -- including discovery, discussion, and writing about fundamental ideas. It provides a series of interesting, challenging problems, then encourages readers to gather their reasonings and understandings of each problem...read more