About the study
May meetings included topological manifolds and a review of Lee’s Introduction to Topological Manifolds. The August plan specified Introduction to Smooth Manifolds.
Study plan
- The August 14 plan proposed 17–20 pages per week, aiming to reach the de Rham theorem.
Meeting format
- Reading reviews and progress check-ins accompanied the other two study tracks.
Progress & milestones
- August 21: an introduction to Chapter 1 of Smooth Manifolds.
- September 4: discussion of levels of compactness and partitions of unity.
- October 2: a switch to Warner’s Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups was proposed.
Meeting record
- May 8, 2021
- May 15, 2021
- May 22, 2021
- August 14, 2021
- August 21, 2021
- September 4, 2021
- October 2, 2021
- October 16, 2021