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 Higher Topology and Differential Geometry - MATH3701
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 UOC of Level 2 Mathematics with an average mark of at least 70, including MATH2111 or MATH2011 (CR) or MATH2510 (CR) and MATH2601 or MATH2501 (CR), or permission from Head of Department.
 
 
Excluded: MATH3531, MATH3700, MATH3760
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course begins with a study of curves in space and how they bend and twist. It then considers surfaces, studying the first and second fundamental forms introduced by Gauss, the various measures of curvature and what they mean for the external and internal appearance and properties of surfaces. It continues by examining topological properties of surfaces, such as the Euler Characteristic, and proves the Gauss-Bonnet theorem relating the differential geometry to the topology. The final topics treated are chosen from homotopy, the Poincare-Hopf theorem, Riemannian geometry, and the hyperbolic plane.


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