Projective Geometry

Winter semester 2020
Course: MATH 3331
Course record number: 89002
Instructor: Y. Sommerhäuser
Schedule:
- Time: Tue, Thu 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
- Room: HH 3015
Office hours of Y. Sommerhäuser: Tue, Thu 5:00 pm-6:00 pm, Fri 2:15 pm-4:15 pm and by appointment
Textbook: H. S. M. Coxeter: Projective Geometry, 2nd ed., Springer, Berlin, 1987
Outline: The course covers the entire material contained in the textbook. Important topics are triangles, quadrangles, and quadrilaterals, the duality principle, the theorems of Pappus and Desargues, projectivities, perspectivities, and polarities, conics and quadrics, and the introduction of coordinates in projective geometry.
Examinations: There will be a midterm examination and a comprehensive final examination. The midterm examination takes place on Tuesday, February 25, during class time in our usual classroom. The final examination takes place during the examination period from April 8 to April 18 at a time and place determined by the registrar's office.
Homework: Beginning Tuesday, January 14, a weekly exercise sheet will be handed out. This has to be submitted in class on the following Tuesday. There will be no exercise sheet during the week of the midterm exam and no exercise sheets during the last two weeks of the semester. In addition, a reading assignment from the textbook will be given in every lecture.
Prerequisite: MATH 2051 (Linear Algebra II)
Examination criteria: The final mark will be computed using the following weights.
- Homework: 25 percent
- Midterm exam: 25 percent
- Final exam: 50 percent
Policies: Eating, drinking, and smoking is not permitted in the classroom. You are expected to be present at every class meeting, from the beginning to the end. The use of electronic devices, especially cellphones, calculators, and laptop computers, is not permitted without explicit permission of the instructor. Electronic devices have to be turned off completely.
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