please recommend a book about differentiable manifold

[bearpetty]

for beginner is ok. i am an EE PH.d student.

 

[boy]

I have a basic book,

Elements of Diffential Geometry by millman & parker, 1977 Prentice Hall.

BTW, what do u gonna use it for? I try to understand it and try to use it in a very complex optimization problem.

 

[sonthach]

**broken link removed**

 

[greek]

these are the books that were recommended at university. I prefer the first one by Spivak but I dont have any in electronic format

M. Spivak, Calculus on Manifolds. A Modern Approach to Classical Theorems of Advanced Calculus, W A Benjamin Inc.

M. Spivak, A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry

W. F. Boothby, An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry, 2nd edition, Academic Press