Download or read book Geometry of Classical Fields written by E. Binz and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an introduction to differential methods in physics. Part I contains a comprehensive presentation of the geometry of manifolds and Lie groups, including infinite dimensional settings. The differential geometric notions introduced in Part I are used in Part II to develop selected topics in field theory, from the basic principles up to the present state of the art. This second part is a systematic development of a covariant Hamiltonian formulation of field theory starting from the principle of stationary action.