Undergraduate Courses 21-465
Topology
Offered every two years: 9 units

Review of metric spaces. Topological spaces. Separation axioms. Open, closed and compact sets. Continuous functions. Product spaces, subspaces, quotient spaces. Connectedness and path-connectedness. Homotopy. Fundamental group of a pointed space. Simply connected spaces. Winding number, the fundamental group of the circle. Functorial property of the fundamental group. Brouwer fixed point theorem. Covering spaces. van Kampen’s theorem. 2-manifolds. Triangulations. Euler characteristic. Surgery, classification of compact 2-manifolds. 3 hours lecture.

Prerequisites: 21-373, 21-356.