Mechanics in Differential Geometry

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE / Talpaert, Yves R. -- CHAPTER ?. INTRODUCTION TO TENSORS -- 1. WELL KNOWN CONCEPTS -- 2. OPERATIONS ON TENSORS -- CHAPTER 1. FOUNDATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY -- 1. MANIFOLDS -- 2. TANGENT VECTOR SPACE -- 3. TANGENT BUNDLE, VECTOR FIELD, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 4. COTANGENT BUNDLE AND COVECTOR FIELDS -- 5. TENSOR ALGEBRA AND TENSOR FIELDS -- 6. EXTERIOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS -- 7. LIE DERIVATIVE, LIE GROUP, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 8. INTEGRATION OF FORMS -- 9. RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- 1. PRELIMINARIES -- 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- CHAPTER 3. A MODERN EXPOSITION OF MECHANICS -- 1. LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS -- 2. HAMILTONIAN MECHANICS -- 3. COMPARISON OF THE LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN FORMULATIONS -- 4. HAMILTON-JACOBI MECHANICS -- 5. INTRODUCTION TO PERTURBATIONS -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 4. THE N-BODY PROBLEM; AN ORIGINAL METHOD FOR LARGE ? -- 1. N-BODY PROBLEM, EQUATIONS AND INTEGRALS -- 2. THE N-BODY PROBLEM IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS -- INDEX