| Course Title: |
Euclidean Curves & Surfaces |
| Course Number: |
MATH 4530 - 1 |
| Instructor: |
Andrejs Treibergs |
| Days: |
M, W, F, 8:35 - 9:25 AM in ST 216. |
| Office Hours: |
12:40-1:30 M, W, F, in JWB 224 (tent.) |
| E-mail: |
treiberg@math.utah.edu |
| Prerequisites: |
Advanced calculus
(e.g. MATH 2210 or consent of instructor.) |
| Text: |
Andrew Pressley, Elementary Differential Geometry, Springer, 2001. |
The Final Exam for Math 4530-1 is Tue., Mar. 29, 8:00 - 10:00 AM
in class.
Half of the exam will cover sections 7.1 - 7.6, 8.1 - 8.3, 10.1 - 10.4, 11.1 - 11.3 of the text.
The other half will be comprehensive over the material from the entier semester.
The exam is closed book except that you are allowed to bring a "Cheat Sheet", TWO 8.5"×11" sheets of notes.
Supplementary Notes for M4530
http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M4530.ps,
.pdf
http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M4530b.ps,
.pdf,
.dvi
MAPLE worksheet for reviewing of M4530
http://www.math.utah.edu/~treiberg/M4530.mws
The Hyperbolic Plane and its Immersions into R3
We study how to describe and compute geometric features of curved surfaces in Euclidean three space.
We describe the Gauß and mean curvature of a surface. We shall discuss applications to cartography,
soap films and bubbles. We shall touch opun mechanical and variational principles.
We shall also mention non-Euclidean geometries. We shall use the MAPLE computer algebra system to illustrate text and lectures.
Topics include (depending on time):
- Curves in the plane and in three space.
- Isoperimetric Inequality.
- Differentiating functions and vector fields on a surface.
- Normal curvature of curves on a surface.
- Gauß curvature Surfaces of revolutiuon.
- Minimal surfaces. Conformal maps. Mercator projection.
- Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces.
- Isometric Immersions. Second fundamental form.
- Complete manifolds. Geodesics.
- Gauß Bonnet Theorem.
- Hilbert's theorems on immersing the sphere and the hyperbolc plane.
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