Geometric Inequalities

Department: 
MATH
Course Number: 
8803-GHO
Hours - Lecture: 
3
Hours - Total Credit: 
3
Typical Scheduling: 
Not Regularly Scheduled
Prerequisites: 

Analysis or Differential Geometry

Course Text: 

TBA

Topic Outline: 

We start by studying the classical isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean space and its relations to a host of other inequalities in analysis and physics. Then we discuss how one might be able to generalize the isoperimetric inequality to spaces of nonpositive curvature.