Introduction to Riemannian Manifolds (Paperback, 2, 2018)

Preface.- 1. What Is Curvature?.- 2. Riemannian Metrics.- 3. Model Riemannian Manifolds.- 4. Connections.- 5. The Levi-Cevita Connection.- 6. Geodesics and Distance.- 7. Curvature.- 8. Riemannian Submanifolds.- 9. The Gauss?Bonnet Theorem.- 10. Jacobi Fields.- 11. Comparison Theory.- 12. Curvature and Topology.- Appendix A: Review of Smooth Manifolds.- Appendix B:  Review of Tensors.- Appendix C: Review of Lie Groups.- References.- Notation Index.- Subject Index.