Prerequisite: MATH 20E and either MATH 18 or MATH 20F or MATH 31AH. Students who have not completed
listed prerequisites may enroll with consent of instructor.
Course Description: Differential geometry of curves and surfaces. Gauss and mean curvatures, geodesics,
parallel displacement, Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
Required Textbooks: Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces: Revised and Updated Second Edition, by Manfredo do Carmo.
Subject Material: This course will cover portions of Chapters 1-4 of the text.
Readings and Exercises: Sections we covered in class will be posed here. I will mostly follow the text so please try to read along. You will also find it helpful to do as many of the exercises as you can.
Emails: I usually don't respond to technical questions via email. If its important please come to class and talk to me afterwords, or come to my office hours so we can chat in person.