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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 notionsAppendix 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
11/2Tangent covectors P. 273-276, 280-284.
11/4Pullbacks and line integrals P. 284-291. Homework 8, due 11/11
11/9Multilinear algebra P. 349-356.
11/11Differential forms P. 359-362. Homework 9, due 11/18
11/16Exterior derivatives; closed and exact forms P. 362-367.
11/18Orientation 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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