MMAT5120 - Topics in Geometry - 2023/24

Announcement

• Course Outline [Download file]
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General Information

Lecturer

• CHAN Kwok Wai
  • Office: LSB 212
  • Tel: 3943 7976
  • Email:

Teaching Assistant

• MU Zuodong
  • Office: LSB 222B
  • Tel: 3943 7963
  • Email:

Time and Venue

• Lecture: Thu 6:30pm - 9:30pm at YIA LT5

Course Description

This course is intended to provide a brief, but solid and modern introduction to various basic geometries using analytic methods. We will focus on various plane geometries including some non-Euclidean geometries, with emphasis on the hyperbolic plane geometry. A brief introduction to solid Euclidean and hyperbolic geometries using quaternions will also be included if time allows.

Textbooks

• Lecture notes available at the course webpage.

References

• Modern Geometries. M. Henle, Prentice Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997.
• A gateway to modern geometry, The Poincaré half-plane. S. Stahl, Second edition. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston, MA,2008.

Lecture Notes

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10
• Week 11
• Week 12

Tutorial Notes

• MMAT5120 practice 1
• MMAT5120 practice 1 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 2
• MMAT5120 practice 2 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 3
• MMAT5120 practice 3 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 4
• MMAT5120 practice 4 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 5
• MMAT5120 practice 5 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 6
• MMAT5120 practice 6 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 7
• MMAT5120 practice 7 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 8
• MMAT5120 practice 8 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 9 & 10
• MMAT5120 practice 9 & 10 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 11
• MMAT5120 practice 12
• MMAT5120 practice 11 solution
• MMAT5120 practice 12 solution

Assignments

• HW 1 (due on Oct 19, 2023)
• HW 1 solution
• HW 2 (due on Nov 30, 2023)
• HW 2 solution

Quizzes and Exams

• MMAT quiz 1 solution
• MMAT quiz 2 solution
• MMAT quiz 3 solution

Assessment Scheme

Homework		20%
Quizzes		30%
Final		50%

Honesty in Academic Work

The Chinese University of Hong Kong places very high importance on honesty in academic work submitted by students, and adopts a policy of zero tolerance on cheating and plagiarism. Any related offence will lead to disciplinary action including termination of studies at the University. Although cases of cheating or plagiarism are rare at the University, everyone should make himself / herself familiar with the content of the following website:

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/

and thereby help avoid any practice that would not be acceptable.

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Assessment Policy

Last updated: December 01, 2023 11:45:43