TOPICS IN GEOMETRY  MATH  302

Instructor:  Ilya Kapovich

Spring 2003   Section B1
MWF, 9am    Altgeld Hall, rm 143

WWW:    http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~kapovich/302-03/302-03.html


The Final exam will take place on Saturday, May 10, 2003 at 8:00-11:00am in our regular classroom.

Please make sure now that this time is acceptable for you. (If not, you urgently need to adjust your registration now!!!) Keep in mind that I will not entertain any requests for "conflict" final exams from people who do not have what the university officially recognizes as a "conflict". See the official university rules about exam conflicts here.


The final exam will be cumulative; however a few chapters discussed in class will be excluded. Here is a complete list of chapters that will be covered by the final exam:  1.2, 2.6,  3.1-3.6, 5.5,  6.1-6.4, 6.6.   During the exam you are allowed to use the list of SMSG axioms, a calculator and one 8''x11'' sheet of notes and formulas. The use of textbooks or lecture notes is not allowed during the exam. There  will be ten problems on the final exam.

The Final exam has been graded and the grades have been posted via Score Reports. As explained at the bottom of the page, the quiz score and the h/work score were weighted to a maximum of 90 points when the course point total was computed.  I added all the extra credit points for the challenge problems to the FIRST MIDTERM EXAM SCORE. Thus the maximum possible point total was 200 +100+100+90+90=580 points.  You should see your point total as well as your letter grade score for the course in your Score Reports record. As was announced in the beginning of the semester, this course is NOT curved (in the sense of assigning a particular grade to a particular percentage of people). The grade cut-off levels were:

 
 
Grade A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F
Points 557.3-580 534.6-557.2 512-534.2 491.3-511.9 470.6-491.2 450-470.5 425.6-449.9 401.3-425.5 377-401.2 344.6-376.9  312.3-376.8 280-312.2 <280

Next week I will be in my office during my regular office hours (Tuesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 15, 10-11:50am). If you wish to discuss your grade and take a look at your final, you can see me then. I will submit the grade roster on Friday, May 16.
 
 

Office and Contact info:

Office: Illini Hall 328
Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10-11:50am (and at other times by appointment)
Tel.: 265-0633
e-mail: kapovich@math.uiuc.edu.
 

Grader:  Mr Dong-il Kim,  dikim@math.uiuc.edu
 
 

Course information:

Approximate syllabus (to be adjusted later):
 
  1. Ch 1.1-1.2  Axiomatic method
  2. Ch 2.2  Euclid's Geometry and Euclid's Elements
  3. Ch. 2.3-2.5 Modern Euclidean Geometries: Hilbert's and Birkhoff's Models
  4. Ch. 2.6 SMSG axioms
  5. Ch. 2.7 Non-Euclidean Geometries
  6. Ch. 3.1-3.2 Introduction to Neutral Geometry
  7. Ch. 3.3 Congruence Conditions
  8. Ch. 3.4 Parallel lines
  9. Ch. 3.5 Saccheri-Legendre Theorem
  10. Ch. 3.6 Rectangles
  11. Ch. 6.1-6.2 Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometries
  12. Ch. 6.3 The Hyperbolic Parallel Postulate
  13. Ch. 6.4 Hyperbolic Polygons
  14. Ch. 6.5 Areas in Hyperbolic Geometry
  15. Ch. 5.5 Inversions
  16. Ch. 6.6 Models for Hyperbolic Geometry

How this course is graded.

 
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