SCHEDULE
MTH 434/534 — Winter 2019


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,
Polar Coords
8
 
 
9
Motivation,
Dot & Cross
10
 
 
11
Differential forms,
Higher Rank, Products
Week 2
(Jan)
14
Determinants,
Pictures
15  
 
 
16    Tensors,
Inner Products,
Polar Coords II
17  
 
 
18    Bases,
Metric Tensor,
Signature
Week 3
(Jan)
21
MLK Day
 
22
 
 
23
Signature,
Higher Rank
24  
 
 
25
Orientation,
Hodge Dual
Week 4
(Jan/Feb)
28    Euclidean &
Minkowski Spaces,
Schwarz Inequality
29  
 
 
30    Hodge Dual II,
Dot & Cross,
Pseudovectors
31  
 
 
1    Gradient,
Exterior Deriv
Div & Curl
Week 5
(Feb)
4    Laplacian,
Properties,
Product Rules
5  
 
 
6
Orthogonal Coords,
Div, Grad, Curl
7  
 
 
8
Orthogonal Coords,
Div, Grad, Curl
Week 6
(Feb)
11
Maxwell's Eqs I,
II & III
12  
 
 
13
Review
 
14  
 
 
15
Midterm
 
Week 7
(Feb)
18
Go over midterm
 
19
 
 
20    Integrals,
Integrands,  
Stokes' Theorem
21
 
 
22
Integration on Sphere
Stokes' Thm Corollaries
Week 8
(Feb/Mar)
25    Polar Coords II,
Vector-Valued Forms,  
Vector Derivatives
26  
 
 
27
Connections,  
Levi-Civita
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
 
14  
 
 
15
Review
 
Finals
(Mar)
18  
 
 
19  
Final
(2–3:50 PM)
20  
 
 
21  
 
 
22