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Geometry I:
Projective Geometry

(Winter 2013)

Lecture Prof. Bobenko Mon 12-14 MA 313
Thu 14-16 MA 313
Tutorial Thilo Rörig Wed 10-12 MA 650
Thu 12-14 MA 848

This is a course of the Berlin Mathematical School held in English.

The first lecture will be on Monday 14.10.2013

The tutorials will start on Wednesday 23th of October.

On the following dates we have to move to a different room: Nov. 7 (MA 841).

News

[07.02.2014]
There will be oral exams in the week 24.02. to 28.02. You can register at Mr. Kall's office MA873.
[29.01.2014]
There will be no lecture tutorial and office hours on Wed 29.01.2014.
[18.12.2013]
There will be no lecture on Thursday 19.12.2013.
[11.12.2013]
The lecture on Thursday 12.12.2013 will be in MA313 as usual. The planned conference takes place in another room.
[20.11.2013]
There will be no lecture on Thurday 28.11. and no tutorials on Wed 27.11. and Thu 28.11.

Contents

Euclidean and non-euclidean geometry: projective, hyperbolic, Möbius, and maybe Lie geometry. The continuation is Geometry II: Discrete Differential Geometry.

Exercise sheets

The exercise sheets can be found here.

Homework policy

To get a certificate of participation, you need to satisfactorily complete 50% of the homework assignments.

The exercises are to be solved in groups of two people.

The homeworks are due weekly at the beginning of the lecture on Thursday. No homework will be accepted after the deadline has passed.

Exam / Grading

At the end of the semester, oral exams will be offered.

Literature

  • Lecture notes by Boris Springborn
  • V. V. Prasolov & V. M. Tikhomirov. Geometry. Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 200. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2001.
  • Nigel Hitchin's lecture notes on Projective Geometry.
  • Felix Klein. Vorlesungen über höhere Geometrie. Grundlehren der Mathematischen Wissenschaften, 22. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1968.
  • Wilhelm Blaschke. Projektive Geometrie. Birkhäuser, Basel, 1954.
  • Michèle Audin. Geometry. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
  • Notes of WS12/13 in a blog or by Che Netzer as pdf.

Office Hours

Office hours Prof. Bobenko Wed 14-15 MA 881
Thilo Rörig Wed 14-16 MA 879

Thilo Rörig . 07.02.2014.