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Wednesdays 7:30-9:00 pm in Science Bldg Room 1101 with Professor Sormani
Prerequisites: Linear Algebra and Vector Calculus
Each lecture is independant so you may miss one without a problem.
Some will have guest speakers. After each meeting
you can try problems. Before each meeting you can
ask questions.
A possible schedule of topics, subject to change
depending on guest speakers
June 6 Jacobian Matrices, Change of Variables and Integration
June 13 Parametrized Surfaces and their Areas
June 20 Flux and Divergence
June 27 Conic Sections, Quadratic Forms, Second Order Expansion of Taylor Series
July 4 no meeting for the holiday
July 11 Mean Curvature and Minimal Surfaces
July 18 Final Meeting
Further exploration on your own:
Calculus on Manifolds by Spivak has a beautiful introduction to differential geometry.
Minimal Surfaces by Dorff has nice graphics you can explore.
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