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Course Info for MATH - 401 - 01, Spring 2026
Class number: 2884 Title: Lie Theory Department: Mathematics
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 5 Available seats: 10
Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM, MECC - 293 Instructor(s): Sandoval, Mary
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in Mathematics 331 or concurrent enrollment in Math 331, Senior status.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Numerical & Symbolic Reasoning Requirement
Course Description:
This course will study the essential tools necessary for extending analysis to curved spaces via Lie Groups and Lie Algebras. The classical matrix groups and their associated algebras will be presented, introducing these in a concrete way as groups of rotations and then generalizing to more complex spaces Complex numbers and the quaternions will be also be introduced.
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