Course Content (Syllabus)
Differentiable Manifolds (basic concepts). Riemannian Metrics. Linear connections. Geodesics. Curvature. Riemannian submanifolds. Complete manifolds. Manifolds of constant curvature.
Additional bibliography for study
1) M. P. do Carmo, Riemannian Geometry, Birkhäuser 1992.
2) John M. Lee, Riemannian manifolds. An introduction to curvature, GTM 176, Springer-Verlag 1997.
3) W. Boothby, An introduction to differentiable manifolds and Riemannian geometry, Academic Press 1975.
4) Loring W. Tu, An introduction to Manifolds, Universitext, Springer 2011.
5) John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, GTM 218, Springer 2003.