Math127w06

Math 127 Geometry and Imagination

MW 4:00 - 6:00 pm B737 EH

Office Hours

Syllabus

Evaluation

Handouts

Homework

Exams

Reading

Our class is here .

Office hours will be held

in East Hall 1825
- Mondays, 10:15-11:30
- Wednesdays, 2:30-3:45.

In case you lost yours, or don't have it at hand:
Syllabus

Please do comment on our class as often as you can, whatever the means:

You can email me and tell me, or just talk to me. I take critisicm very well.

If you don't believe that, then you can send an anonymous evaluation .

Handouts and links
All the class handouts will be listed here.

You can play all the games online here

Homeworks
Your homeworks will be listed here.

due on Wednesday, 1/18
- Read the excerpts from Flatland: The romance of many dimensions pages: 11-31; 70-73; 85-101 (you certainly may read the whole thing, it's a fun book).
- plus answer the following questions
due on Monday, 1/30, homework 2
due on Wednesday, 2/8, homework 3
due on Wednesday, 3/8, homework 4
due on Wednesday, 3/15, homework 5
due on Monday, 3/20, homework 6
due on Wednesday, 3/29, homework 7
due on Wednesday, 4/5, homework 8
due on Wednesday, 4/12, homework 9

Midterm projects due 2/20

Final projects due 4/21 by 12:00pm in my office
Here are few references about writing good papers.

U of Toronto Advice on Academic Writing
UNC advice on writing
Grading scheme or What is expected from you.

Here is what I hope to be an accurate, but is most likely an approximate, schedule. The reason I give it is so that you can do your advance section reading without having an excuse "But you didn't tell us". My life, but more importantly your life, will be so much easier if you read each section the day before we get to it.

Notes	Section title	Date
	Introduction	1/9
	Flatland and gluing	1/11
hw 1 due	Torus games	1/18
	Vocabulary	1/23
quiz 1	Vocabulary cont'd	1/25
hw2 due	Orientability	1/30
quiz2	Orientability	2/1
	Connected sums	2/6
hw3 due	More connected sum and beginnig products	2/8
	Products	2/13
quiz 3	End products	2/15
	Midterm projects	2/20
	Midterm projects	2/22
	Flat manifolds	3/6
hw4 due	Sphere and hyperbolic plane	3/8
	Geometries on surfaces	3/13
hw5 due & quiz4	Few exercises	3/15
hw 6 due	Surface Explorer	3/20
	Triangulation & Euler number	3/22
quiz 5 to cover geometries on surfaces, sidedness	Gauss-Bonnet formula	3/27
hw7 due	Gauss-Bonnet formula Hypercube I Hypercube Game and cube Another game Lots more	3/29
quiz 6	4-dimensional space & Hypersphere	4/3
hw8 due	Geometries and Curved Spaces	4/5
	Bundles	4/10
hw9 due	Surfaces with boundary here is the example from today that i did not draw correctly	4/12
quiz 7--to cover everything	Geometries on 3-manifolds	4/17