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 5   Solutions

Midterm 1, Midterm 2

Homework 6   due at noon, Mar 23rd

Homework 7  due at noon, April 5th

Homework 8  due at noon, April 17th