Math A6100/461: Differential Geometry
Spring 2011
Instructor: Prof. Cleary
E-mail: cleary (at sign) sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Office: NAC 8134
Phone: 650-5122
Office Hours: see webpage here for up-to-date office hours.
Text: Pressley, 2nd edition, Elementary Differential Geometry, ISBN-10: 184882890X
ISBN-13: 978-1848828902, Springer.
Course documents:
Announcements:
- Term grades on Blackboard.
- Exams graded, scores on Blackboard.
- Homework and exam scores all recorded on Blackboard; any corrections must be pointed out by Thursday, May 19th.
- Final exam coming up, May 26 1:00pm to 3:15pm in NAC 1511E.
- Exam 2 graded, scores on Blackboard.
- Exam 2 coming up, April 5th.
- No class Thurs March 17th, due to Finitely Presented Solvable Groups conference
- Exam 1 graded, scores on Blackboard.
- There are additional exercises from our book at this page.
- Bonus office hours for exam: Wednesday 3/2 1:30pm-3:30pm
- Exam 1 coming up Mar 3rd.
- A nice collection of curve applets with curvature, torsion and the Frenet-Serret frame is here under Ch. 10.
- For Mathematica, visit Kent Eng in NAC 4225 after filling out two forms this one and this one
- Cycloid examples from lecture.
- Note: we will be using the 2nd edition of Pressley (the current one.) The title is in red letters on the cover, whereas the old edition had blue letters for the title, an easy way to tell them apart.
- First class meets Feb 1st in NAC 1511A, the Artino lab.
- E. Abbott Abbott's Flatland is available online in many places, for example here
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