SCHEDULE
MTH 434/534 — Winter 2013


This is a rough schedule showing which topic we will cover when. All dates are subject to change.
The topic links refer to my online book.

  Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Week 1
(Jan)
7
Introduction
8  
 
9
No class  
10  
 
11
No class
Week 2
(Jan)
14
Differential forms,
Dot & Cross
15  
 
 
16    Polar Coords,
Higher Rank Forms,
Products
17  
 
 
18
Determinants,
Pictures
Week 3
(Jan)
21
MLK Day
 
22  
 
 
23    Tensors,
Inner Products,
Polar Coords II
24  
 
 
25    Bases,
Metric Tensor,
Signature
Week 4
(Jan/Feb)
28
Higher Rank,
Schwarz Inequality
29  
 
 
30
Orientation,
Hodge Dual
31  
 
 
1
Euclidean Space,
Minkowski Space
Week 5
(Feb)
4    Hodge Dual II,
Dot & Cross,
Pseudovectors
5  
 
 
6
Gradient,
Exterior Deriv
7  
 
 
8
Div & Curl,
Polar Laplacian
Week 6
(Feb)
11
Properties,
Product Rules
12  
 
 
13
Orthogonal Coords,
Div, Grad, Curl
14  
 
 
15
Maxwell's Eqs I,
II & III
Week 7
(Feb)
18
Midterm
19  
 
20
Go over midterm
21
 
22
No class
Week 8
(Feb/Mar)
25    Integrals,
Integrands,  
Stokes' Theorem
26  
 
 
27    Polar Coords II,
Vector-Valued Forms,  
Vector Derivatives
28
 
 
1
Connections,  
Levi-Civita
Week 9
(Mar)
4    Polar Coords III,
Curves,
Surfaces
5
 
 
6
Curvature,
Bianchi Identities
7  
 
8    Geodesic Curvature,
Geodesic Triangles,
Gauss-Bonnet Thm
Week 10
(Mar)
11
The Torus
 
12  
 
 
13
Topology
Corollaries of Stokes' Thm
14  
 
 
15
Integration on the Sphere
 
Finals
(Mar)
18  
 
 
19  
Final
(12–1:50 PM)
20  
 
 
21  
 
 
22