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Differential Topology: An Introduction
by David B. Gauld

ISBN: 048645021X
Dover Publications Price: $15.95
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This self-contained treatment features 88 helpful illustrations and its subjects include topological spaces and properties, some advanced calculus, differentiable manifolds, orientability, submanifolds and an embedding theorem, and tangent spaces. Additional topics comprise vector fields and integral curves, surgery, classification of orientable surfaces, and Whitney's embedding theorem. 1982 edition.
Slightly corrected republication of the edition published by Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1982.

Table of Contents for Differential Topology: An Introduction
1. What Is Topology?
2. Topological Spaces
3. Some Topological Properties
4. Some Advanced Calculus
5. Differentiable Manifolds
6. Orientability
7. Submanifolds and an Embedding Theorem
8. Tangent Spaces
9. Critical Points Again
10. Vector Fields and Integral Curves
11. Surgery
12. The Trace of a Surgery
13. Surgery on a Surface
14. Classification of Orientable Surfaces
15. Whitney’s Embedding Theorem
Appendix A. The Unproved Theorems
Appendix B. Further Topics
Notation
Bibliography
Index

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