401-3531-00L Differential Geometry I
| Semester | Autumn Semester 2019 |
| Lecturers | U. Lang |
| Periodicity | yearly recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | At most one of the three course units (Bachelor Core Courses) 401-3461-00L Functional Analysis I 401-3531-00L Differential Geometry I 401-3601-00L Probability Theory can be recognised for the Master's degree in Mathematics or Applied Mathematics. |
| Abstract | Introduction to differential geometry and differential topology. Contents: Curves, (hyper-)surfaces in R^n, geodesics, curvature, Theorema Egregium, Theorem of Gauss-Bonnet. Hyperbolic space. Differentiable manifolds, immersions and embeddings, Sard's Theorem, mapping degree and intersection number, vector bundles, vector fields and flows, differential forms, Stokes' Theorem. |
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| Lecture notes | Partial lecture notes are available from https://people.math.ethz.ch/~lang/ |
| Literature | Differential geometry in R^n: - Manfredo P. do Carmo: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces - Wolfgang Kühnel: Differentialgeometrie. Kurven-Flächen-Mannigfaltigkeiten - Christian Bär: Elementare Differentialgeometrie Differential topology: - Dennis Barden & Charles Thomas: An Introduction to Differential Manifolds - Victor Guillemin & Alan Pollack: Differential Topology - Morris W. Hirsch: Differential Topology |