Extensively revised and updated, this volume provides an introduction to manifolds at the beginning graduate level. It contains the essential topological ideas involved with further study of manifolds, particularly in the context of differential geometry, algebraic topology, and related fields.

Extensively revised and updated, this volume provides an introduction to manifolds at the beginning graduate level. It contains the essential topological ideas involved with further study of manifolds, particularly in the context of differential geometry, algebraic topology, and related fields.