MATH 225A
Smooth Manifolds
Mathematics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Smooth manifolds and smooth maps; inverse and implicit function theorems, submersions, immersions, submanifolds; tangent and cotangent bundles, vector bundles; differential forms, exterior differentiation, and Lie derivatives; integration, Stokes’ theorem, de Rham cohomology, and computations using the Mayer-Vietoris sequences; vector fields, integral curves, distributions, Frobenius’ theorem.
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MATH 225A
- MATH 226ADifferential Geometry
- MATH 233Partial Differential Equations on Manifolds
- MATH 226BDifferential Geometry
- MATH 234Topics in Differential Geometry
- MATH 226CDifferential Geometry
- MATH 235Topics in Manifold Theory
- MATH 236Topics in Geometric Topology
5 courses list this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 8 courses over 2 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.