MMAT5120 - Topics in Geometry - 2018/19

Course Name: 
Topics in Geometry
Teacher: 
Prof. Tom Yau Heng WAN
Course Year: 
2018/19
Term: 
1

Announcement

  • Reminder: 1st classwork, Sep 20, 2018
  • Reminder: 2nd classwork, Oct 11, 2018
  • Homework 1 due on Oct 18, 2018
  • Reminder: 3rd classwork, Nov 8, 2018
  • No class on Nov 15, 2018 (Congregation)
  • Homework 2 due on Nov 22, 2018
  • Reminder: Final next Thursday Nov 29, 2018, 6:30-9:00pm; up to quaternion, no solid geometry

General Information

Lecturer

  • Wan, Yau Heng Tom
    • Office: LSB215
    • Tel: 3943 7986
    • Email:

Teaching Assistant

  • Antony Fung
    • Email:

Time and Venue

  • Lecture: Thu 18:30-21:15 Yasumoto Int'l Acad Park LT9

Course Description

This course is intended to provide a brief, but solid, modern introduction to various basic geometries using analytic methods. For this term, this course will concentrate on various plane geometries related to the so-called "non-Euclidean" geometries with emphasis on hyperbolic plane geometry. A brief introduction to Solid Euclidean and Hyperbolic geometries using quaternion will also be included.


Textbooks

  • Michael Henle, "Moderan Geometries, Non-Euclidean, Projective, and Discrete", 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall

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Assessment Scheme

2 Homeworks 10%
3 Classworks (Last 30 mins of the classes on Sep 20, Oct 11, and Nov 8) 30%
Final Exam (Nov 29, 2018) 60%

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.

Assessment Policy

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