Math 541 S20 - Hyperbolic 3-mflds

William Worden Home Research Teaching CV
TIME 10:00 - 10:50am MWF
ROOM HBH 453 / online
TEXTBOOK Hyperbolic Geometry and Knot Theory by J. Purcell
INSTRUCTOR Dr. William Worden
CONTACT INFO HBH 420, william.worden@rice.edu
OFFICE HOURS Wed 2-3p
EXAM DATES N/A
SYLLABUS syllabus

Course materials:

class notes, Thurston's notes

Benedetti & Petronio, Chapter A

Figure-8 polyhedral decomposition in 3D:

standard proj with bigons—flatter version 

standard proj no bigons

standard proj with bigons

thurston's tetrahedron position—no bigons

thurston's tetrahedron position—with bigons

knot decomposition at a crossing

gifs:

edge split—from top

edge split—from bottom

edge split—rotating

Homework:

Homework 1 - 1.24.20

Homework 2 - 2.10.20

Homework 3 - 2.24.20

Homework 4 - 3.25.20