(Leo, Mathew, Isabelle, Chantal, Dan, Chelsea, Rebecca)

Josh Laison
Math 476: Modern Geometry

Course Procedures
Crocheting a hyperbolic plane #1 #2
Wallpaper Groups
More Wallpaper Groups
Still More Wallpaper Groups
The Geometry Center
Jeff Weeks' webpage
Don Hatch's webpage
Polygon Playground
The official website of M.C. Escher

Course calendar:
Monday Wednesday Friday
Week 1 Jan 14: First day of class. Jan 16 Jan 18
Week 2 Jan 21 Jan 23: Written #1: Section 2.2: 1-3 Jan 25
Week 3 Jan 28 Jan 30 Feb 1: Written #2: Section 1.2: 1-4, Section 1.3: 9-16
Week 4 Feb 4 Feb 6 Feb 8: Individual #1
Week 5 Feb 11 Feb 13 Feb 15: Written #3: S2.6: 1-4, S2.7: 1, S2.8: 1, 4
Week 6 Feb 18 Midterm sometime this week. Feb 20 Feb 22
Week 7 Feb 25 Feb 27 Feb 29: Written #4: Determine which of Euclid's Propositions 1-28 are true in double elliptic geometry. For those that are false, describe a counterexample.
Week 8 March 3 March 5 March 7
Week 9 March 10 March 12 March 14
Week 10 March 17 March 19: Individual #2 March 21
Week 11 March 31 April 2 Written #5: 3.5: 10, 11, 18, 3.6: 10, and find instances of each of the 7 types of frieze patterns listed on page 171 on campus. Sketch or photograph these patterns, and explain how you identified them by type. April 4
Week 12 April 7 April 9 Written #6: 3.8: 2, 4, 8, 13, 18a, 3.9: 10, 19 April 11
Week 13 April 14 April 16 SSRD, no class. April 18 Written #7: 1. Classify the wallpaper patterns on page 172, 3.10: 23, 3.11 Activities 18, 19, 20, 24, 25 (extra points for creativity!)
Week 14 April 21 April 23 April 25
Week 15 April 28 Last day of class!
Individual #3: S4.2: 4, S4.4: 6, S4.5: 1, 4, 8, S4.7: 1-4
Final sometime before Wed. May 7, 11:00 AM