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Math 8061: Schedule and Homework Assignments
The schedule below will be gradually filled out as
the class progresses.
Day |
Topic |
Book pages |
Homework |
8/27 | Review of topological notions | Appendix, p. 541-544. |
| 8/29 | Topological manifolds | P. 1-8. | Homework 1, due 9/5. |
9/5 | Smooth structures | P. 11-14,
17-18 | Homework 2, due 9/12
| 9/10 | More about smooth atlases | P. 14, 19-24 |
| 9/12 | Partitions of
unity | P. 49-54 | Homework 3, due 9/19
| 9/17 | Smooth functions, smooth maps | P. 31-36, 55-57 |
| 9/19 | The rank theorem | P. 156-158, 163-168 |
| 9/24 | Immersions and embeddings | P. 174-176,
180-183 | Homework 4, due 10/3.
| 10/1 | Embedding manifolds in R^n | |
| 10/3 | Sard's Theorem | Handout |
| 10/8 | Tangent vectors | P. 61-65 |
| 10/10 | Pushforwards, tangent bundle | P. 66-71, 81-82 | Homework 5, due 10/22.
| 10/15 | Vector fields | P. 82-89 |
| 10/17 | Integral curves and flows | P. 435-442 |
| 10/22 | Regular points of a vector field | P. 447-450 |
| 10/24 | Lie derivatives, Lie Brackets | P. 89-91, 465-468 |
Homework 6, due 11/5
| 10/31 | Commuting vector fields | P. 468-472 |
| 11/5 | Frobenius integrability theorem | P. 495-496, 500-505 |
| 11/7 | Tangent covectors | P. 125-134. | Homework 7, due 11/14
| 11/12 | Pullbacks and line integrals | P. 136-142. |
| 11/14 | Multilinear algebra | P. 294-302. |
| 11/19 | Differential forms |
P. 302-310. | Homework 8, due 11/28
| 11/26 | Closed and exact forms | P. 143-148; 310. |
| 11/28 | Orientation forms | P. 327-329; 334-340. |
| 12/3 | Integration on manifolds |
P. 350-356. | Homework 9, due 12/12
| 12/5 | Stokes' theorem | P. 359-362. |
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