ICTS Course no.: MTH 122.5
Venue: Online
Class timings: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 12:30 AM (1 hr tutorial once a week, tutorial timings to be announced later)
First meeting: 10th August
Course description:
Topology: Homotopy, retraction and deformation, fundamental group, Van Kampen theorem, covering spaces and their relations with the fundamental group, universal coverings, automorphisms of a covering, regular covering.
Geometry: Differential geometry of curves and surfaces, mean curvature, Gaussian curvature, differentiable manifolds, tangent, and cotangent spaces, vector fields and their flows, Frobenius theorem, differential forms, de Rham cohomology.
Grading policy:
20% assignments, 40% midterm, 40% final.
- Teacher: Rukmini Dey