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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 |
8/24 | Review of topological notions | Appendix A. |
| 8/26 | Topological manifolds | P. 2-10. | Homework 1, due 9/2. |
8/31 | Smooth atlases | P. 10-13 |
| 9/2 | Smooth structures, examples | P. 14-20 | Homework 2, due 9/9
| 9/7 | Smooth functions, smooth maps | P. 31-36 |
| 9/9 | Diffeomorphisms, bump functions | P. 38-42 |
| 9/14 | Partitions of unity | P. 40-46 |
| 9/16 | No class (Yom Kippur) | |
| 9/17 | Immersions, submersions, embeddings |
P. 77-81 | Homework 3, due 9/23
| 9/21 | The rank theorem | P. 81-86 |
| 9/23 | Embedded submanifolds | P. 99-106 | Homework 4, due 9/30.
| 9/28 | Tangent vectors and derivations | P. 51-55 |
| 9/30 | Tangent space, differential of a map | P. 56-61,
68-70 | Homework 5, due 10/7.
| 10/5 | The tangent budle | P. 65-68 |
| 10/7 | Sard's Theorem |
P. 127-131 | Homework sheet, not due
| 10/12 | Whitney embedding theorem | P. 131-135 |
| 10/14 | Transversality |
P. 143-147 | Homework 6, due 10/21.
| 10/19 | Vector fields, pushforwards | P. 174-185 |
| 10/21 | Integral curves and flows | P. 205-212 |
| 10/26 | Lie derivatives, Lie Brackets | P. 185-188, 227-231 |
| 10/28 | Commuting vector fields | P. 231-235 |
Homework 7, due 11/4
| 11/2 | Tangent covectors | P. 273-276, 280-284. |
| 11/4 | Pullbacks and line integrals |
P. 284-291. | Homework 8, due 11/11
| 11/9 | Multilinear algebra | P. 349-356. |
| 11/11 | Differential forms |
P. 359-362. | Homework 9, due 11/18
| 11/16 | Exterior derivatives; closed and exact forms | P. 362-367. |
| 11/18 | Orientation forms |
P. 377-386. | Homework 10, extra credit
| 11/30 | Integration on manifolds | P. 402-410. |
| 12/2 | Stokes' theorem | P. 411-415. |
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