This is the webpage of Math466 For 2024-2 Semester.  

Here is a tentative Syllabus.

Week 1)

17.02.2025 (2 Hours) Made an introduction to isometry groups. Introduced the finite dihedral groups and their basic properties.

19.02.2025 (1 Hour) Introduced the infinite dihedral group and its basic properties.

Week 2)

24.02.2025 (2 Hours) Investigated the group Isom(R) and described its elements. Recalled the direct products of groups and automorphism groups.

26.02.2025 (1 Hour) Introduced semi-direct products.

Week 3)

3.3.2025 (2 Hours) Realized the previous examples of groups as semi-direct products. Started investigating Isom(R^n). Introduced orthogonal matrices and their basic properties.

5.3.2025 (1 Hour) Proved that every isometry of R^n that fixes the origin is an orthogonal linear transformation. Deduced that every isometry of R^n is the composition of a translation and an orthogonal matrix. Also deduced that the isometry group of R^n is a semi-direct product of R^n with O(n).

Week 4)

10.03.2025 (2 Hour) Introduced orientations and orientation preserving/reversing isometries of R^n. Started investigating the Eucliedan group (=Isom(R^2) ). Observed that orthgonal linear transformations of R^2 are rotations and refections.

12.03.2025 (1 Hour) Classified isometries of R^2: Proved that an isomtery of R^2 is either a translation, a rotation, a reflection or a glide reflection. Classified these according to being O.R. or O.P.

Week 5)

17.03.2025 (2 Hours) Investigated the possible products of elements of the Euclidean group. Proved that every isometry of R^2 is the product of at most 3 reflections.

19.03.2025 (1 Hour) Proved that the a finite subgroup of the Euclidean group is either finite cyclic or finite dihedral.

(No exercises for Week 5 !!)