Preface 1 Introduction 1.1 A Robot's Arm 1.2 The Configuration Space of Two Electrons 1.3 State Spaces and Fiber Bundles 1.4 Further Examples 1.5 Compact Surfaces 1.6 Higher Dimensions 2 Smooth Manifolds 2.1 Topological Manifolds 2.2 Smooth Structures 2.3 Maximal Atlases 2.4 Smooth Maps 2.5 Submanifolds 2.6 Products and Sums 3 The Tangent Space 3.1 Germs 3.2 Smooth Bump Functions 3.3 The Tangent Space 3.4 The Cotangent Space 3.5 Derivations 4 Regular Values 4.1 The Rank 4.2 The Inverse Function Theorem 4.3 The Rank Theorem 4.4 Regular Values 4.5 Transversality 4.6 Sard's Theorem 4.7 Immersions and Imbeddings 5 Vector Bundles 5.1 Topological Vector Bundles 5.2 Transition Functions 5.3 Smooth Vector Bundles 5.4 Pre-vector Bundles 5.5 The Tangent Bundle 5.6 The Cotangent Bundle …… 6 Constructions on Vector Bundles 7 Integrability 8 Local Phenomena that Go Global Appendix A Point Set Topology References Index