Foundational Material -- De Rham Cohomology and Harmonic Differential Forms -- Parallel Transport, Connections, and Covariant Derivatives -- Geodesics and Jacobi Fields -- Symmetric Spaces and Kähler Manifolds -- Morse Theory and Floer Homology -- Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory -- Harmonic Maps.
Calculus for Functions of One Variable -- Prerequisites -- Limits and Continuity of Functions -- Differentiability -- Characteristic Properties of Differentiable Functions. Differential Equations -- The Banach Fixed Point Theorem. The Concept of Banach Space -- Uniform Convergence. Interchangeability of Limiting Processes. Examples of Banach Spaces. The Theorem of Arzela-Ascoli -- Integrals and…
Stability of dynamical systems, bifurcations, and generic properties -- Discrete invariants of dynamical systems -- Entropy and topological aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and metric aspects of dynamical systems -- Entropy and measure theoretic aspects of dynamical systems -- Smooth dynamical systems -- Cellular automata and Boolean networks as examples of discrete dynamical systems.Our…