Math 563: Introduction to Differential Geometry
Fall 2003
Announcements
- Do not calculate the principal curvatures and directions in the first
problem of the final. Just calculate the Gaussian and the Mean
curvatures.
- The take home is posted blow!
- You can now
download a student version of Mathematica for free if you
are full-time undergraduate or graduate student at BU.
- Some important dates on the
academic calendar.
- Check out this nice
gallery of various surfaces.
General Course Information
- Instructor: Takashi Kimura
- Office: MCS 234
- Phone: (617)353-1486
- Lecture: MWF 1-2
- Room: MCS B33
- My Office Hours: M 3-4, WF 11-12
Course Materials
- Course Description/Syllabus
- How to download and open Mathematica
notebooks from this Web page.
- Mathematica tutorial (notebook file)
- Mathematica notebook from the Oct 15th lecture.
- Mathematica notebook from the Oct 24th lecture
calculating principal curvatures of the torus.
Homework Assignments
- Graded homeworks will be returned in class or you can pick them up
during office hours.
- Homework #1: Due Wed 9/17
- 1.10, 11, 14, 15
- 2.1, 2, 7, 15
- Homework #2: Due Mon 9/29
- 2.19
- 3.2
- 4.2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 13, 16
- Homework #3: Due Mon 10/20
- 5.1, 4, 8, 11, 14 , 15
- 6.1, 5, 8, 9
- Homework #4: Due Wed 11/5
- 6.15, 17, 18, 19, 24
- 7.3, 11, 12
- Homework #5: Due Mon 11/24
Exams