Math 535: General (point set) topology
Basic Information
- Instructor: Eugene Lerman
- e-mail: lerman at math dott uiuc dott edu
- Homepage:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~lerman
- Course page:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~lerman/535/home.html
- Office: 336 Illini Hall
- Office Hours: to be announced and by appointment.
- Phone: 244-9510
- Class meets: Tu Th 9-10:20 am in 447 Altgeld Hall
Prerequisites
None, really.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me by e-mail.
Grades
The course grade will be based on weekly homework
(65 %), class participation (5%) and the final exam (30%)
Course outline
The course is an introduction to point set topology:
- Definition and examples of topology, topological spaces and
continuous maps, bases, subbases.
- subspaces, products
- metrics and pseudometrics
- quotient topology
- nets
- separation axioms: Hausdorff, regular, normal...
- connectedness, local connectedness, path connectedness
- compactness, Tychonoff theorem
- compactness and completeness in metric spaces
- Urysohn lemma, Tietze extension
- countability axioms
- paracompactness and partitions of unity
- metrizability
- topology on function spaces
Texts
Recommended texts are (there is no required text):
General Topology
by S. Willard
(A Dover edition should be available from the bookstore)
Topology
by Munkres (any edition)
Topology and Geometry by Bredon
see this file for lectures and homework assignments.
Last modified: Mon Oct 16 09:55:45 CDT 2006