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An introduction to manifolds by Loring Tu in 2010

1. Euclidean spaces

1. Smooth functions on a Euclidean space

2. Tangent vectors in \[\mathbb{R}^n\] as derivations

3. The exterior algebra of multicovectors

4. Differential forms on \[\mathbb{R}^n\]

2. Manifolds

5. Manifolds

6. Smooth maps on a manifold

7. Quotients

3. The tangent space

8. The tangent space

9. Submanifolds

10. Categories and functors

11. The rank of a smooth map

12. The tangent bundle

13. Bump functions and partitions of unity

14. Vector fields

4. Lie groups and Lie algebras

15. Lie groups

16. Lie algebras

5. Differential forms

17. Differential 1-Forms

18. Differential k-Forms

19. The exterior derivative

20. The Lie derivative and interior multiplication

6. Integration

21. Orientations

22. Manifolds with boundary

23. Integration on Manifolds

7. De Rham Theory

24. De Rham Cohomology

25. The Long exact sequence in cohomology

26. The Mayer-Vietoris sequence

27. Homotopy invariance

28. Computation of de Rham Cohomology

29. Proof of homotopy invariance

Appendices

A. Point-Set Topology

C. Existence of a partition of unity in general

D. Linear algebra

E. Quaternions and the symplectic group