

The ?rst stream contains the standard theoretical material on differential ge- etry of curves and surfaces. The material is given in two parallel streams. Who is who: - Riemann, - Serret, - Frenet, - Jacobi, - Gauss, - Christoffel, - Weingarten, - Caratheodory, - Meusnier, - Clairaut, - Bonnet.This concise guide to the differential geometry of curves and surfaces can be recommended to ?rst-year graduate students, strong senior students, and students specializing in geometry. Isometric transformation of catenoid to helicoid -(by Albert Chern).Minimal surfaces - (3-min slide-show by Hojoo Lee).Tractrix - Wikipedia page (scroll down for animations!).Serret-Frenet frame - Wikipedia page (scroll down!),.Soap film and Minimal surfaces (15 min video by Juan Bragado).Soap films (2 min video by Henry Segerman).Involutes of different curves (including the involute of the circle).Catenary: arhes and bridges in architecture, anchoring of marine objects.Some applications of differential geometry: Detailed Solutions for questions from Problems Class 8 (scheduled for ).Questions to discuss in revision lectures.Questions discussed in the Problems Class.There will be weekly sets of exercises stared questions to hand in on Thursdays, weeks 3,5,7,9.If you have any questions you are very welcome to ask (during the lectures, after a lecture, during office hours, in any other convenient time or via e-mail) !!! Week 19: Local and global Gauss-Bonnet theorem.

Meusnier's theorem, asymptotic curves lines of curvature.

Tangent and normal vectors, curvature of a plane curve. Week 2: Length of a curve, arc length, existence of arc length parametrization, examples.Week 1: Introduction and overview of the course, idea of curvature of a curve and surface, definition of a curve, trace, tangent vector, regular curve.Plane and space curves, arc length, tangent and normal vectors, curvature, local and global properties embedded surfaces, tangent planes, curves on surfaces intrinsic geometry of a surface, metric, length, area, first fundamental form maps between surfaces, Gauss map isometries and conformal maps, the Weingarten map, the second fundamental form, Gauss curvature and mean curvature, minimal surfaces, Theorema Egregium, Christoffel symbols, normal and geodesic curvatures, Meusnier's theorem, asymptotic curves, lines of curvature, geodesics, Clairaut's relations, global and local Gauss-Bonnet theorems. Preliminary course content (subject to change): Bolton, A First Course in Differential Geometry, in the library Do Carmo, Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces, in the library Will not follow any of these strictly, the material can be found in them. The lectures are based on the following books. Office hours: Tuesday 11:30 - 12:30 and by appointment Michaelmas 2019 - Epiphany 2020 Time and place:Į-mail: anna dot felikson at durham dot ac dot uk
