acknowledgements
         1 sets and structures
         1.1 sets and logic
         1.2 subsets, unions and intersections of sets
         1.3 cartesian products and relations
         1.4 mappings
         1.5 infinite sets
         1.6 structures
         1.7 category theory
         2 groups
         2.1 elements of group theory
         2.2 transformation and permutation groups
         2.3 matrix groups
         2.4 homomorphisms and isomorphisms
         2.5 normal subgroups and factor groups
         2.6 group actions
         2.7 symmetry groups
         3 vector spaces
         3.1 rings and fields
         3.2 vector spaces
         3.3 vector space homomorphisms
         3.4 vector subspaces and quotient spaces
         3.5 bases ofavector space
         3.6 summation convention and transformation of bases
         3.7 dual spaces
         4 linear operators and matrices
         4.1 eigenspaces and characteristic equations
         4.2 jordan canonical form
         4.3 linear ordinary differential equations
         4.4 introduction to group representation theory
         5 inner product spaces
         5.1 real inner product spaces
         5.2 complex inner product spaces
         5.3 representations of finite groups
         6 algebras
         6.1 algebras and ideals
         6.2 complex numbers and complex structures
         6.3 quaternions and clifford algebras
         6.4 grassmann algebras
         6.5 lie algebras and lie groups
         7 tensors
         7.1 free vector spaces and tensor spaces
         7.2 multilinear maps and tensors
         7.3 basis representation of tensors
         7.4 operations on tensors
         8 exterior algebra
         8.1 r-vectors and r-forms
         8.2 basis representation of r-vectors
         8.3 exterior product
         8.4 interior product
         8.5 oriented vector spaces
         8.6 the hodge dual
         9 special relativity
         9.1 minkowski space-time
         9.2 relativistic kinematics
         9.3 particle dynamics
         9.4 electrodynamics
         9.5 conservation laws and energy-stress tensors
         10 topology
         10.1 euclidean topology
         10.2 general topological spaces
         10.3 metric spaces
         10.4 induced topologies
         10.5 hausdorff spaces
         10.6 compact spaces
         10.7 connected spaces
         10.8 topological groups
         10.9 topological vector spaces
         11 measure theory and integration
         11.1 measurable spaces and functions
         11.2 measure spaces
         11.3 lebesgue integration
         12 distributions
         12.1 test functions and distributions
         12.2 operations on distributions
         12.3 fourier transforms
         12.4 green's functions
         13 hilbert spaces
         13.1 definitions and examples
         13.2 expansion theorems
         13.3 linear functionals
         13.4 bounded linear operators
         13.5 spectral theory
         13.6 unbounded operators
         14 quantum mechanics
         14.1 basic concepts
         14.2 quantum dynamics
         14.3 symmetry transformations
         14.4 quantum statistical mechanics
         15 differential geometry
         15.1 differentiable manifolds
         15.2 differentiable maps and curves
         15.3 tangent, cotangent and tensor spaces
         15.4 tangent map and submanifolds
         15.5 commutators, flows and lie derivatives
         15.6 distributions and frobenius theorem
         16 differentiable forms
         16.1 differential forms and exterior derivative
         16.2 properties of exterior derivative
         16.3 frobenius theorem: dual form
         16.4 thermodynamics
         16.5 classical mechanics
         17 integration on manifolds
         17.1 partitions of unity
         17.2 integration of n-forms
         17.3 stokes' theorem
         17.4 homology and cohomology
         17.5 the poincare lemma
         18 connections and curvature
         18.1 linear connections and geodesics
         18.2 covariant derivative of tensor fields
         18.3 curvature and torsion
         18.4 pseudo-riemannian manifolds
         18.5 equation of geodesic deviation
         18.6 the riemann tensor and its symmetries
         18.7 caftan formalism
         18.8 general relativity
         18.9 cosmology
         18.10 variation principles in space-time
         19 lie groups and lie algebras
         19.1 lie groups
         19.2 the exponential map
         19.3 lie subgroups
         19.4 lie groups of transformations
         19.5 groups of isometrics
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