Math 120B: General Course Outline
Catalog Description
    120B. Differential Geometry. (4) Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Requisites: courses 32B, 33B, 115A, 120A, 131A. Curves in 3-space, Frenet formulas, surfaces in 3-space, normal curvature, Gaussian curvature, congruence of curves and surfaces, intrinsic geometry of surfaces, isometries, geodesics, Gauss/Bonnet theorem. P/NP or letter grading.
Textbook
    Kuhnel, Differential Geometry, 2nd Edition, AMS
    Book is Subject to Change Without Notice
Schedule of Lectures

Week
Chapter
Topic
1+2
7.4 and 9
Geodesics
3+4
10
Theorema Egregium
5+6
11
Hyperbolic Geometry
7+8
12
Minimal Surfaces
9+10
13
The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem

 

Comments

Outline update: P. Petersen, 3/11
(Requisites updated 5/98)
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