MAT1120, Winter 2013


MAT1313 - Comparison geometry - Fall 2013
Faculty: Vitali Kapovitch Office: HU 1023 Telephone: (416)-978-6786 email: vtk@math.toronto.edu Office Hours : Tu 3-4pm and by appointment "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever". -- Chinese Proverb

The Text for this course: We will use a variety of sources including (but not exclusive) the following

Lecture Notes on Comparison geometry by Jost Eschenburg
A section on the proof of Toponogov triangle comparison from a book draft on Alexandrov geometry by Stephganie Alexander, Anton Petruninand myself.
Paper "Proof of the soul conjecture of Cheeger and Gromoll" by G. Perelman.