Math 442/443 - Differential Geometry

Instructor
Prof. Judith M. Arms, arms@math.washington.edu
Office: PDL C338 (3rd floor opposite C-Wing stairs), (206)543-9458, messages at (206)543-1150

Office hours: MWF 1:40-2:30 (EXCEPTION: not on 4/6);
Tu 12-1:30 (priority to 443 students);
Th 11-12:30 (priority to 480 students).
For appointments, email requests are best.

Text: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, by Thomas Banchoff and Stephen Lovett. (Caution: another book with the same title but a different author has been used for the course in previous years.)
Errata list for the text. Be sure to consult this list and enter corrections in your copy of the text. Warning: One of them is for a problem in the first assignment! Please report other suspected errors.
Use this link diffgeo.akpeters.com to go directly to the page for the applets designed for exploring examples in the book. (Link in the preface will eventually get you there, also.)

Spring Quarter Test dates:
Midterm in about week 6 (1st full week of May); we can discuss and decide during week 2.
Final exam Thursday 6/11, 8:30-10:20. The date and time of the final exam are assigned by the university and cannot be changed.
There may be a take-home component to either or both tests.

Spring Quarter grades: Homework, midterm, and final will be 25%, 30%, and 45% of the course grade. Improvement on the final and other considerations may be considered for making minor upward adjustments for grades in individual cases.

Click on the links below for more useful or interesting information.

• Introduction to the course.
• Homework policies.
• Homework assignments. First spring assignment due on 4/8.
• Test information, e.g. rules for notes. Review and sample test problems are posted at the Workspace Quiz and Test Info page.
• Math 442/443 Catalyst Tools:
  The Workspace has links to the other tools, and later will have problem solutions and study materials for quizzes and tests.
  Preferences survey: please update your preferences and schedule information if they change.
  Discussion board so you can discuss the computer applets, homework, organizing study groups, etc., with other students in the course.
  Gradebook.
• Comments about books on reserve (and also about one available online).
• Other geometry/topology sites:
  "Some spaces can't be cut," a readable article about the proof that some manifolds of dimension > 3 can't be triangulated.
  ACME Klein Bottle Company
  A "Virtual Math Museum"
  Knitting mathematical models
  
• Other resources:
  Student Counseling Center: individual and group counseling for career decisions and personal problems (including procrastination and test anxiety).
  Mathematics Department Policy on Concerns About Instruction

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Most recently updated on April 3, 2015.