Manifolds I, M 703, Fall 2005
M & W 2:30--3:45 pm
LGRT 1535

Reading material

• Hitchin's lecture notes: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/~hausel/hitchin/hitchinnotes/Differentiable_manifolds/Differentiable_manifolds.zip
• Pedit's very incomplete lecture notes: http://www.gang.umass.edu/~franz/teaching/manifolds.pdf
• Warner: Introduction to Differential Manifolds and Lie Groups
• Spivak: Vol I-V
• doCarmo: Riemannian Manifolds
• Gallot, Hulin and Lafontaine: Riemannian Geometry
• Arnold: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics
• Griffiths and Harris: Principles of Algebraic Geometry

Office Hours

Thursday afternoon: Burdick's Cafe, Green Street, Northampton and by appointment.

Homework

We meet Mondays 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. for  homework discussions.

Problem Sheet 1,  Problem Sheet 2, Problem Sheet 3, Problem Sheet 4,  Problem Sheet 5