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Differential Geometry II - NDGE012
Title: Diferenciální geometrie II
Guaranteed by: Department of Mathematics Education (32-KDM)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2016
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: cancelled
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Antonín Slavík, Ph.D.
Classification: Mathematics > Geometry
Incompatibility : NMUG404
Interchangeability : NMUG404
Is incompatible with: NMUG404
Is interchangeable with: NMUG404
Annotation -
Last update: T_KDM (11.01.2011)
Continuation of Differential geometry I, focuses on deeper properties of curves and surfaces.
Aim of the course -
Last update: T_KDM (19.05.2008)

This course helps to obtain theoretical background for teaching mathematics at high school.

Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Antonín Slavík, Ph.D. (02.10.2012)
  • M. P. do Carmo, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, Prentice-Hall, 1976.
  • P. M. H. Wilson, Curved Spaces (From Classical Geometries to Elementary Differential Geometry). Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  • E. Kreyszig, Differential Geometry, New York, 1991.
  • Ch. Bär, Elementary Differential Geometry, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • B. O'Neill, Elementary Differential Geometry (2nd edition), Elsevier, 2006.
  • A. Pressley, Elementary Differential Geometry (2nd edition), Springer, 2010.
  • M. Spivak, A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry vol. 1-5. Publish or Perish, Inc.
  • J. Oprea, Differential Geometry and Its Applications, The Mathematical Association of America, 2007.
  • C. G. Gibson, Elementary Geometry of Differentiable Curves, Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Teaching methods -
Last update: T_KDM (20.05.2008)

Lectures and exercises.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. Antonín Slavík, Ph.D. (02.10.2012)
  • Plane curves: envelopes, isoperimetric inequality, Crofton's formula and its applications, four vertex theorem.

  • The equations of Gauss, Christoffel symbols, Theorema egregium. Geodesic curves on surfaces and their properties, geodesic polar coordinates and their applications, Minding's theorem. Geometry on curved surfaces (geodesic circles and triangles). Surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature, minimal surfaces.

 
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