Here is a list of topics and a dynamic listing of what was actually planned and covered in the lecture. Parentheses indicate a topic was not covered or not covered in much detail.
Date Chapter.Section/Topics or Page/Problems
M Jan 12 Lecture 1 Introduction: (Alexandrov's theorem)
Surface definitions
Definitions A and B
W 14 Lecture 2 (calculus; inverse function theorem)
meaning of Definitions A and B
(overlapping parameterizations theorem)
Statement of the pillbox theorem
(Properties of surfaces)
M 19 Holiday (MLK)
W 21 Lecture 3 project suggestions
-higher order reflection/extension
-calculus: inverse function thm, Taylor's thm
-Banach space calculus (Hörmander, Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators Vol. 1)
-inverse function theorem
-higher order derivatives and multilinear maps
-extension theorems
-Whitney extension theorem
-improve results in my notes
-C^k embedded surface in R^n (Osserman, Survey of Minimal Surfaces)
start of proof of pillbox theorem
M 26 Lecture 4 proof of the pillbox thm (snow day---postponed)
W 28 Lecture 4 proof of the pillbox thm
M Feb 2 Lecture 5 first order geometry in the tangent plane
W 4 Lecture 6 first order geometry in the parameter tangent plane
M 9 Lecture 7 the elliptical image and the unit circle
W 11 Lecture 8 angles
Quiz 1
M 16
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W Apr 1 Lecture 21
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M 27 Last class meeting
F May 1 (scheduled final exam time 11:20 AM - 2:10 PM)