MA235: Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds
January - April 2023
Class timings: Tue Thu 3:30-5pm First class is on Tue, Jan 10
Teaching assistant: Ramesh Mete (rameshmete@)
Office hours: 11:30-12:30 on Wednesdays
Recommended books:
John Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 218, Springer-Verlag 2012
Dennis Barden and Charles Thomas, An Introduction to Differential Manifolds, World Scientific 2003.
Michael Spivak, Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry, Vol 1, Publish or Perish, 2005.
Grading policy: 20% Homework, 40% Midterm exam , 40% Final exam.
Homework
Homework 1 due on January 20th
Homework 2 due on January 30th
Homework 3 due at noon, Feb 9th
Homework 4 due at noon, Feb 16th
Homework 6 due at noon, Mar 23rd
Homework 7 due at noon, April 5th
Homework 8 due at noon, April 17th