Wk | Date | Topics | |
1 | 1/25 | Overview of the material, curves | |
2 | 1/30 | Surfaces and graphs | |
2/01 | Level sets, implicit functions | ||
3 | 2/06 | Regularity for curves | |
2/08 | Tangent spaces and regular surfaces | ||
4 | 2/13 | Curves and the tangent space, the Chaine Rule | |
2/15 | Reparametrization, the Gauss Map | ||
5 | 2/20 | Local inversion, curves and surfaces as graphs | |
2/22 | Arc length | ||
6 | 2/27 | Shortest curves and unit speed reparametrization | |
2/29 | The first fundamental form | ||
3/02 | Extra session: The Implicit Functions Theorem | ||
7 | 3/05 | Midterm 1 | |
3/07 | Surface areas | ||
8 | Spring Break | ||
9 | 3/19 | Curvature of plane curves | |
3/21 | The tangent angle, curvature of space curves | ||
10 | 3/26 | Torsion, the Frenet frame | |
3/28 | Frenet formulas | ||
11 | 4/02 | The Darboux frame, geodesic and normal curvatures | |
4/04 | Properties of the normal curvature | ||
12 | 4/09 | The shape operator | |
4/11 | Midterm 2 | ||
13 | 4/16 | The second fundamental form | |
4/18 | Principal curvatures | ||
14 | 4/23 | The type of a surface | |
4/25 | Gaussian curvature | ||
15 | 4/30 | Theorema Egregium | |
5/02 | Isometries | ||
🎓 | 5/08 | Final examination |