Analysis on manifolds, Math 73
Last updated February 29, 2004


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Text-book: Analysis on manifolds, James R. Munkres, publisher Westview Press, 1991.


Lectures Sections in Text Brief Description
Day 1:  1/5 Sections 1 & 2 Review of linear algebra
Day 2:  1/7 Section 2 Review of linear algebra: determinants
Day 3:  1/12 Section 3 Review of topology of R^n
Day 4:  1/13 Section 4 Compact sets in R^n
Day 5:  1/14 Section 5 Differentiable functions
Day 6:  1/16 Sections 5 & 6 Continuously differentiable functions
Day 7:  1/20 Section 7 The chain rule
Day 8:  1/21 Section 8 The inverse function theorem
Day 9:  1/23 Sections 8 & 10 The inverse function theorem; Integral over a rectangle
Day 10:  1/26 Sections 11 and 12 Existence and evaluation of Riemann integral
(Lebesgue's and Fubini's theorem)
Day 11:  1/27 Section 13 Integral over a bounded set
Day 12:  1/28 Section 14 Rectifiable sets
Day 13:  2/2 Section 15 Improper integrals
Day 14:  2/3 Section 17 Change of variables
Day 15:  2/4 Section 18 Diffeomorphisms of R^n
Day 16:  2/6 Section 20 Applications of change of variables
Day 17:  2/9 Section 20 Invariance of the volume under isometries of R^n
Day 18:  2/10 Sections 21 and 22 The volume of parametrized manifolds
Day 19:  2/11 Sections 22 and 23 Parametrized manifolds and manifolds in R^n
Day 20:  2/16 Sections 23 and 24 Manifolds and manifolds with boundary
Day 21:  2/18 --- Play with coordinate patches :o)
Day 22:  2/20 Section 29 Tangent vectors and tangent plane
Day 23:  2/23 Sections 29 and 26 Tangent vectors and tangent plane; Multilinear algebra
Day 24:  2/25 Section 27 Alternating tensors
Day 25:  2/27 Section 28 Wedge product
Day 26:  3/1 Sections 29 and 30 Differential forms; The differential operator
Day 27:  3/2 Section 32 The action of a differentiable map
Day 28:  3/3 Section 33 Integration of forms over parametrized manifolds
Day 29:  3/5 Sections 34 and 35 Orientable manifolds; Integration of forms over oriented manifolds
Day 30:  3/8 Section 37 Stokes' theorem
Day 31:  3/9 --- Wrap up ...