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Welcome to AMS Open Math Notes, a repository of freely downloadable mathematical works hosted by the American Mathematical Society as a service to researchers, faculty and students. Open Math Notes includes:

  • Draft works including course notes, textbooks, and research expositions. These have not been published elsewhere and are subject to revision.
  • Items previously published in the Journal of Inquiry-Based Learning in Mathematics, a refereed journal
  • Refereed publications at the AMS

Visitors are encouraged to download and use any of these materials as teaching and research aids, and to send constructive comments and suggestions to the authors.

Open Math Notes Advisory Board:

  • Karen Vogtmann, Chair | University of Warwick
  • Tom Halverson | Macalester College
  • Andrew Hwang | College of the Holy Cross
  • Robert Lazarsfeld | Stony Brook University
  • Mary Pugh | University of Toronto

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A Mathematical Introduction to Nonlinear Wave Equations: Part I

A rigorous and intuitive foundation in nonlinear hyperbolic PDEs. Part I focuses on general linear wave equations, and lays the foundation for the general treatment of nonlinear wave equations.

Dave B. H. Verweg · Kapteyn Astronomical Institute · Luuk de Ridder · Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics · Date posted: April 6, 2026

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Coverages and Grothendieck Toposes

These notes detail the basics of the theory of Grothendieck toposes from the viewpoint of coverages. Typically one defines a site as a (small) category equipped with a Grothendieck topology. However, it is often desirable to generate a Grothendieck topology from a smaller structure, such as a Grothendieck pretopology, but these require some pullbacks to exist in your underlying category. There is an even more light-weight structure one can generate a Grothendieck topology from called a coverage.

Emilio Minichiello · CUNY CityTech · Date posted: October 6, 2025

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Moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces

Topics include the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and its Deligne-Mumford compactification, Jacobians and the period mapping, Teichmuller space and the Teichmuller and Weil-Petersson metrics, and the geometric Shafarevich and Mordell theorems.

These are course notes from a topics class first taught at Stanford University.

Alex Wright · University of Michigan · Date posted: October 6, 2025

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Course geometry and Teichmuller theory

Topics include Gromov hyperbolic spaces, curve graphs, Teichmuller spaces, mapping class groups, and hierarchical hyperbolicity.

These are student notes from a topics course taught at the university of Michigan.

Alex Wright · University of Michigan · Date posted: October 6, 2025

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Outer automorphism groups of free groups

Topics include folding, outer space, the Nielsen-Thurston classification of outer automorphisms, the free splitting and free factor complexes, and doubled handlebodies.

These are notes on a graduate topics course at the University of Michigan in Fall 2023. The notes were taken by students and edited by Alex Wright.

Alex Wright · University of Michigan · Date posted: October 6, 2025

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