Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2024-2025
MATH 551 - DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS
Long Title: DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS
Department: Mathematics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Description: This is a course on differentiable manifolds. Topics include: Differential of a smooth map. Transversality. Implicit function theorem, submersions, and immersions. Tangent and Cotangent bundles. Vector fields, flows. Lie derivatives. Lie groups. Differential forms, Integration on manifolds, Stokes theorem. DeRham theory. Additional topics may include distributions and foliations, including the Frobenius Theorem. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: MATH 451. Recommended Prerequisite(s): MATH 539