SUO: 06 May 2002 -- Differential Geometry for Engineers
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Information Flow --> Differential Geometry
The plan to read from Barwise & Seligman's 'Information Flow'
has been put on hold for the time being, while I wait to hear
from the second author, as a member of the working group had
expressed reservations about copyright issues that I thought
it best to get some additional opinions on. Instead, I will
carry out a more selective reading from the following work:
| Brian F. Doolin & Clyde F. Martin,
|'Introduction to Differential Geometry for Engineers',
| Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1990.
From the Preface:
| This book has been written to acquaint engineers, especially control
| engineers, with the basic concepts and terminology of modern global
| differential geometry. The ideas discussed are applied here mainly
| as an introduction to the Lie theory of differential equations and
| to the role of Grassmanians in control systems analysis. To reach
| these topics, the fundamental notions of manifolds, tangent spaces,
| vector fields, and Lie algebras are discussed and exemplified.
The reading will of course be conducted on the Ontology Sublist.
Jon Awbrey
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