Instructor: Stefan Wenger
Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50 am
Location: 117 TH
Office hours: Monday, 4 - 5pm; Friday, 1 - 2pm, or by appointment
Exercise sessions: On select Wednesdays from 5 - 6pm in SEO 512 (see below for the dates).
Textbook: Frank Wilson Warner, Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups, New York Springer, 1983
Some other books which might be useful are given in the following list.
Exams:
- Take home midterm exam, will be online from October 22, due on October 29
- Take home final exam, will be online from December 5, due on December 9
Homework: There will be regular homework assignments, posted on this page. Selected problems will be discussed in special exercise sessions.
Course goals: Manifolds, embeddings, degree mod 2, vector fields, covariant tensors and differential forms, integration on manifolds and Stokes' theorem, Brouwer degree, Riemannian metrics
Course progress: If you have to miss a class, you may find out here what we will cover (have covered).
Homework problems:
| Due date (in class) | Exercises |
| Will be discussed on Wednesday, September 9 | Homework 1 |
| Will be discussed on Wednesday, September 16 | Homework 2 |
| Due on Friday, September 25th, at noon (either in class or my mailbox) | Homework 3 |
| Will be discussed on Wednesday, October 7 | Homework 4 |
| Will be discussed on Wednesday, October 14 | Homework 5 |
| Take home midterm exam, will be discussed on Wednesday, November 11 | Midterm exam |
| Will be discussed on November 18 | Homework 6 |
| Will be discussed on December 2 | Homework 7 |
| Final exam, due on December 9, at 3pm | Final exam |
| Supplementary problems | Contact instructor |