MATH3061 Geometry and Topology
General Information
This page contains information on the senior mainstream unit of study MATH3061.
- Taught in Semester 2.
- Credit point value: 6.
- Classes per week: Three lectures and one tutorial.
- Lecturer(s): Yusra Naqvi and Bregje Pauwels .
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Consultation
Lecturer | Availability | Time | Office |
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Yusra Naqvi | Weeks 1 – 6 | Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 | online |
Bregje Pauwels | Weeks 7 – 12 | Wednesday 9:00 – 10:00 | online |
Assessment
Date* | Description | Better mark | Weighting |
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23:59 September 25 | Geometry Assignment | 10% | |
9:00 October 1 | Geometry Quiz | 10% | |
23:59 November 6 | Topology Assignment | 10% | |
12:00 November 17 | Topology Quiz | 10% | |
Exam | 60% |
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Enquiries
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Unit outline
Canvas webpage
The MATH3061 Canvas webpage contains details about consultations, assessment, textbooks, objectives, and learning outcomes for MATH3061.
This part of the course will explore geometric transformations and properties that are invariant under these transformations.
- Week 1
- Linear algebra review. The Euclidean plane. Transformations. Isometries.
- Week 2
- Transformation groups. Reflections. Fixed points. Rotations.
- Week 3
- Involutions. Glide-reflections. Classification of isometries. Parity.
- Week 4
- Symmetry groups. Affine transformations. Derivative of an isometry.
- Week 5
- The projective plane. Projective lines. Collineations.
- Week 6
- Conics. Classification of Conics.
Topology is the study of surfaces under continuous deformation. That is, we allow ourselves to stretch surfaces but not to tear them.
- Week 7
- Graphs, subdivision, sums of degrees = twice the number of edges, connectedness, circuits, trees.
- Week 8
- Disc, annulus, torus, Möbius band, Klein bottle, sphere, projective planes, homeomorphism, stereographic projection.
- Week 9
- Triangulated surfaces, Euler characteristic, invariance under subdivision, cutting, pasting, boundaries, orientation, edge equation.
- Week 10
- Classification of surfaces, genus, oriented closed surfaces in three dimensions, handles, crosscaps.
- Week 11
- Platonic surfaces. Graphs on surfaces: K5 is not planar. Map colouring: the five colour theorem, the Heawood estimate for maps on surfaces.
- Week 12
- Knots: Polygonals knots, knots diagrams, the unknot, trefoil knots, figure eight knots, knot colouring. Knot determinants, n-colourings, Seifert surfaces, and knot genus.
Textbook and references
Lecture notes will be published in the resource table below.
Supplementary notes for both parts of math3061 are available online:- Nigel O’Brian's Geometry lecture notes.
- Jonathan Hillman's Topology lecture notes.
See the course Canvas webpage for additional textbook references.
Further reading and resources (topology)
- Topological equivalence of a torus and a coffee cup
- The Klein bottle (YouTube video)
- Gluing a torus bottle (YouTube video)
- An Introduction to Topology, E. C. Zeeman
- Platonic solids (Wikipedia)
- The Four-Color Problem: Concept and Solution, Steven G. Krantz.
- The Rolfsen Knot Table
- Torus knots
- Seifert surface
Online resources
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