College of Chemistry Course Guide

MATH 140 - Metric Differential Geometry (4 Units)

(Taken from the UC Berkeley Course Guide)

Course Overview

Summary

Frenet formulas, isoperimetric inequality, local theory of surfaces in Euclidean space, first and second fundamental forms. Gaussian and mean curvature, isometries, geodesics, parallelism, the Gauss-Bonnet-Von Dyck Theorem.

Prerequisites

MATH 104

Workload

Time Commitment

3 hours of lecture per week.




UC Berkeley Course Guide