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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 |
8/28 | Topological manifolds | P. 2-10. |
| 8/30 | Smooth atlases | P. 10-13 | Homework 1, due 9/6. |
9/4 | No class (Labor Day) | |
| 9/6 | Smooth structures, examples | P. 14-20 |
| 9/11 | Smooth functions, smooth maps | P. 31-38 |
| 9/13 | Bump functions, locally finite covers, partitions of unity | P. 40-44 |
Homework 2, due 9/20. |
9/18 | Applications of partitions of unity; tangent vectors |
P. 43-46 |
| 9/20 | Tangent vectors and derivations | P. 51-55 | Homework 3, due 9/27. |
9/25 | Tangent space, differential of a map | P. 56-61 |
| 9/27 | The tangent budle | P. 65-68 | Homework 4, due 10/4
| 10/2 | Immersions, submersions, rank theorem |
P. 77-86 |
| 10/4 | The rank theorem and embedded submanifolds | P. 99-106 |
Homework 5, due 10/11.
| 10/9 | Sard's Theorem |
P. 127-131 |
| 10/11 | Whitney embedding theorem, part 1 | P. 131-133 |
| 10/16 | Whitney theorem & applications | P. 133-135 |
| 10/18 | Midterm exam | |
| 10/23 | Transversality |
P. 143-147 | Homework 6, due 11/1.
| 10/25 | Vector fields, pushforwards | P. 174-185 |
| 10/30 | Integral curves and flows | P. 205-211 |
| 11/1 | Local flows, complete vector fields | P. 211-216 | Homework 7, due 11/8
| 11/6 | Canonical form of vector field, Lie brackets |
P. 185-188, P. 331-332 of 1st ed |
| 11/8 | Commuting vector fields | P. 227-235 |
Homework 8, due 11/15
| 11/13 | Tangent covectors | P. 273-276, 280-284. |
| 11/15 | Pullbacks and line integrals |
P. 284-291. | Homework 9, due 12/1
| 11/27 | Multilinear algebra | P. 305-307, 349-356. |
| 11/29 | Differential forms, exterior derivatives |
P. 359-367. |
Homework 10, due 12/8
| 12/4 | Closed and exact forms; orientation | P. 295-297, 377-386. |
| 12/6 | Integration on manifolds | P. 402-410. |
| 12/11 | Stokes' theorem | P. 411-415. |
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