Syllabus
The seminar consists of four lecture series, 3 or 4 lectures each, by several lecturers. The content varies from year to year. Past topics include non-euclidean geometry, Moebius group, classification of smooth vector fields on the sphere, knot theory, solvability of higher order polynomial equations, discrete Fourier transform and many others.
Preliminary programme: https://www2.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~smid/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.VarInvLS2223
Annotation
An elective seminar for 1st and 2nd year students of General Mathematics.
The aim of the seminar is to introduce a series of topics of geometry, algebra and physics, which do not fit into regular courses. The unifying idea will be the symmetry and invariance principles in many variations.