MAT 464S/1343S - Course Information
There will be weekly homework assignments, posted on or before
Wednesdays on the course homepage. Students are expected to work on
all problems, but only one problem will be graded. The due date for
each assignment is Wednesday of the following week. No late
assignments will be accepted. Due dates: #1 Jan 30, #2 Feb 6,
#3 Feb 13, #4 March 6, #5 March 13, #6 March 20, #7
March 27, #8 April 10.
Instructor: Professor E. Meinrenken Office: SS4053 Phone: 416-946-3569 e-mail: mein@math.toronto.edu Office hours: Wednesday 10-12 or by appointment Course homepage: www.math.toronto.edu/people/meinrenken/teaching/464.html Class: W1-2 SS 1072, F1-3 UC 65 Literature:
Spivak: A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry I.
Jost: Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis.
Boothby: An introduction to differentiable
manifolds and Riemannian geometry Teaching Assistant:
Nan-kuo Ho
· | Point set topology and the definition of manifolds |
· | Tangent space, tangent bundle |
· | Vector fields |
· | Differential forms |
· | Riemannian metrics |
· | Connections, curvature |
· | Geodesics |