Math 120A Differential Geometry 9am-9:50am MS 5118
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Lecture time: MWF 9-9:50. Lecture room: MS 5118.
Instructor: Huy Tran. Email: tvhuy at math dot ucla dot edu. Office: MS 6617-C.
Office hours: M W Th 4-5.
Extra office hours: always available by appointment
Discussion time: Thursdays 9-9:50. Room: Geology 6704, different building!
Teaching Assistant: Sangjin Lee Office: MS 3919
Office hours: T&Th 3-4pm.
Lecture notes will be updated regularly here(curve) and here (surface).
Book reference:
-Andrew Pressley, Elementary Differential Geometry. Springer (1974). Second Edition. An electronic version of this textbook is available for free through the UCLA network here.
-Millman & Parker's book,
-Peterson's note
Tentative schedule:
Announcement:
-1/9: Today introduction slide.
In problem 2 of hw1, please find and write down the formulas. The part "find picture" is for your own research.
Each student please do this survey. Tks.
List of exercises (incl. extra) in Adrew Pressley's book.
-1/11: lecture note is updated regularly.
Extra office hour tomorrow (Thu, 1/12): 4:30-5:30.
-1/16: office-hours changed to Mon, Wed, Thu 4-5pm.
-1/24/2017: pro3 is duplicated with hw2, you don't have to do. My mistake. Tks Will.
A typo in pr9(i) is fixed. Tks Kevin.
Dates and rooms for midterms are posted in the schedule.
Midterm 2 will cover chapters 4, 5 and probably small part of chapter 6 (details later).
Midterm 1 will cover chapters 1-3.
-1/25: correct the wording of Problem 6 (Tks Sangjin).
A sample for midterm 1. Warning: it may not reflect what will happen in the real midterm.
Don't forget to check the archive page to see two more midterms.
-1/26: Homework 4 is uploaded.
-1/27: Happy new lunar year
-2/1: Hw5 is uploaded.
-2/2: I don't understand what they say here, but is fascinated that Frenet-Serret frame is mentioned.
-2/6: Hw5 is updated. Lecture note is updated.
-2/7: Again, solutions for hw can be found in myucla
-2/8: hw5 is clarified more.
-2/13: I will be away from March 12-March 18 for a conference. Someone will be substituting for me.
Plus there is a midterm on March 13.
-2/14: The wording in problem 2 of hw6 is changed.
-2/16: typo in problem 9 is fixed.
-2/20: I'll be teaching on Wed, Thu, Fri this week.
-3/3: Midterm 2 preparation is here. Please read and tell me if there are unclear things.
-3/8: Homework 9, problem 6 is a practice to compute D_p F.
-3/9: Office hours in the exam week: Mon, Tue, Wed 2pm-4pm.
Homework 9 is due on the final exam date
-3/14: no class tomorrow (Wed 3/15).
Sangjin will run Thursday and Friday
-3/16: Final preparation file. Any questions? Please ask.
-3/20: Any formula you want to add to the exam so that you don't have to memorize? Please tell me.
Formulas for final: see here.
-3/23: final exam is uploaded. Email me if you want to talk about the grades.
Homework assignment 1: (updated)
-Read 1.1-1.3 (in Pressley).
-Do hw1.
Homework assignment 2: (updated)
-Read 1.5, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
-Do hw2.
Homework assignment 3: (updated)
-Read 1.4, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2,
-Do hw3 (omit pr3)
Homework assignment 4: (updated)
-Read 3.2, 3.3
-Do hw4
-Part of the reading can be downloaded from ccle.
Homework assignment 5: (updated)
-Read 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.3
-Do hw5.
Homework assignment 6: (updated)
-Read 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 5.2
-Do hw6
Homework assignment 7: (updated)
-Read 6.1, 4.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
-Do hw7
Homework assignment 8: (updated)
-Read 8.1, 8.2,...
-Do hw8
Homework assignment 9: (updating)
-Do hw9