Announcements and lecture summary
Links to
old announcements.
- 03.26
- For H4, I've marked problems 1 and 3-7, and each is worth 5 points.
The solution is in owncloud.
- 04.02
-
I've returned homework 5 today in class. The solution can be found in owncloud. I've marked
problems 1-3 and 5-7.
-
In our last lecture this Thursday, I plan to cover the equations for geodesics (section 4.4), and
then give an overview of Gauss-Bonnet theorem (section 4.5).
- The take-home final exam is due this Thursday April 4. As I wrote in my March 23 email,
If you need more time, you will need to let me know before April 4, and scan and email your exam
before April 10 midnight because I will travel on April 5.
However, I think most of you may find it hard to finish it before Thursday. Thus I will assume you
will scan and email before April 10 midnight if you don't hand in on Thursday, and you don't need
to tell me.
Hint about scanning: If you will write using a pencil, I suggest to use a 1B pencil so that it is
dark enough.
Homework sets and Exams
Week
|
Date
|
Homework sets and Exams |
Notes |
1
|
Thu 01.03
|
first lecture
|
1
|
2
|
Thu 01.10
|
|
2, 3
|
3
|
Thu 01.17
|
H1: 1.2-1.5
|
4, 5
|
4
|
Thu 01.24
|
|
6, 7
|
5
|
Thu 01.31
|
H2: 1.7, 2.2
|
8, 9
|
6
|
Thu 02.07
|
|
10,
11
|
7
|
Thu 02.14
|
H3: 2.3
|
12
|
| midterm break |
8
|
Thu 02.28
|
|
13, 14
|
9
|
Thu 03.07
|
H4: 2.4, 2.5
|
15, 16
|
10
|
Thu 03.14
|
|
17, 18
|
11
|
Thu 03.21
|
H5: 3.2, 3.3
|
19, 20
|
12
|
Thu 03.28
|
|
21, 22
|
13
|
Thu 04.04
|
Take-home final exam
|
23, 24
|
Course Description
- Instructor: Dr. Tai-Peng Tsai, Math building room 109, phone 604-822-2591, ttsai at math.ubc.ca
- Lectures: Tue and Thu, 14:00 - 15:15, MATH 104
- Office hours:
TBA, and by appointment
(Tsai's
schedule).
- Course outline: pdf
file.
- Textbook:
Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces: Revised and Updated Second Edition,
by Manfredo P. do Carmo,
Dover Publications, ISBN-10: 0486806995
ISBN-13: 9780486806990 .
- UBC Calendar description:
The differential geometry of curves and surfaces in three-dimensional Euclidean
space. Mean curvature and Gaussian curvature. Geodesics. Gauss's Theorema Egregium.
Prerequisite: Either (a) a score of 68% or higher in MATH 223 or (b) a score of 80%
or higher in one of MATH 152, MATH 221; and either (a) a score of 68% or higher in
MATH 227 or (b) a score of 80% or higher in one of MATH 217, MATH 263, MATH 317.
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