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James R. Munkres, "Analysis on Manifolds"

Amazon.com reader review:

This book covers a natural extention to my course on analysis in R^n--only content similar to first one sixth of the book got treated at the end of the course. Having read first half (just before manifold) in a continuous fashion (span of nearly a week for 4 hours-ish p.d.), I find this one exceptionally clearly-written, (unlike some point in Spivak's Calculus on Manifold), and in content it serves as a detailed amplification on Spivak's (Sp seems to try to keep the proofs elegant and concise more than possible, making a couple of important theorems render indigestible).

Other noticeable features are:

1) Mistake-free.

2) Proofs are truncated into stages with explicit objectives in each, making them well-structured on paper and easy to recall in future, and in this way techniques in proofs become highlighted into some elementary theorems (to get most job done) so that the scope of applications are much widened.

3) Motivations scattered throughout the book for integrity.

4) Examples given illustrate as counterexample of how theorem fails with some condition changed or missing.

5) The level of presentation is uniform throughout the book: strictly speaking, only a good single-variable analysis course (Rudin will do, and also helpful to refer to the overlapping topics) and some motivation are needed, all essential concepts of linear algebra, topology are introduced afresh and uniquely and in the favorable context: either indispensible in later proofs (can act as a practice of it) or results proven motivate its introduction and properties, though some knowledge beforehand can help you to appreciate more, and focus on mainbody.

6) Each proof is not necessarily the shortest in methods, you may say, but looks most natural and appropriate at this level. Actually, most time it's quite concise whilst, in main theorems, all details are laid out without undue omission. (In contrast, some authors waffle lavishly between substance, but say bare minimum (sometimes unjustified) when it comes to proofs.) Length is also due to partition of proof into stages, which is way clearer in mind than a gluster of dense but appearingly short arguments. And richness and details of proofs themselves are good for getting hang of techniques.

All in all, Munkres is clearly a master, while reading it, you just feel it cannot get any better. Clarity, style, and organisation put the book far above its peers, and an undeniably outstanding first course in multivariable analysis and manifold alike.

Although exam-irrelevant, I will surely continue the journey of reading it, in a belief that it'll serve as a solid step-stone to embark on diff geometry or GR with ease, which is my original purpose. hope you can share my enjoyment.

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