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	Instructor: Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri (office M-227, email: chitrabhanu [at] niser [dot] ac [dot] in) Lectures: Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu 8:30-9:25 at M2 SMS building. Office hours: Monday 16:00 - 17:00 Syllabus, Academic Calendar.

Texts:

• M. P. Do Carmo, “Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces”, Prentice Hall, 1976..
• Andrew Pressley, “Elementary Differential Geometry”, Springer, 2010.

References:

• M. P. Do Carmo, “Differential Forms and Applications”, Springer, 1994.
• J. A. Thorpe, “Elementary Topics in Differential Geometry”, Undergraduate texts in mathematics, Springer, 2011.
• Tristan Needham, “Visual differential geometry and forms—a mathematical drama in five acts”. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Course Resources folder will contain lecture notes and problem sets. Please book mark this folder.

Problem Sets: There will be weekly problem sets and every Monday there will be a problem session based on the previous week's problem set.

Exams: Test1 3 Feb (Thu); Midsem 28 Feb (Mon); Endsem 9 May (Mon).

Grading percentages: Test1 - 15%, Problem Sessions + Presentation - 15%, Midterm - 30%, Final - 40%.