MATH 551: DIFFERENTIABLE MANIFOLDS
Spring 2026 · Section 001 · CRN 23098
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. Cross-list: MATH 451. Recommended Prerequisite(s): MATH 539
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Jo Nelson