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Fall 2021

Daniel Ketover

Subtitle:

Course Description:

We give an introduction to Riemannian geometry, beginning with the notion of a manifold. We'll study geodesics, Jacobi fields and the Morse index theorem, the curvature tensor and comparison theorems, connections between curvature and topology and time-permitting some selected topics in geometric analysis.

Textbook:

do Carmo, Riemannian Geometry

Prerequisites:

point set topology, multivariable calculus