Wk | Date | Topics |
1 | 9/02 | Introduction, intuitive notions |
2 | 9/07 | Review of basic set theory |
9/09 | Distances, open sets in metric spaces | |
3 | 9/14 | Continuity in metric spaces, topological spaces |
9/16 | Basis of a topology | |
4 | 9/21 | Comparisons, order topologies |
9/23 | Product topologies | |
5 | 9/28 | Subspace topologies |
9/30 | Closed sets | |
6 | 10/05 | Neighborhoods, accumulation points |
10/07 | Hausdorff spaces, separation properties | |
7 | 10/12 | Continuous functions, homeomorphisms |
10/14 | The language of categories | |
8 | 10/19 | Fall Break |
10/21 | The category $\operatorname{Top}$ | |
9 | 10/26 | Midterm - Take-home component |
10/28 | Topologies on general products | |
10 | 11/02 | Metric topoloogies revisited |
11/04 | The uniform topology | |
11 | 11/09 | Sequential characterizations and uniform convergence |
11/11 | Connectedness | |
12 | 11/16 | Connectedness, continued |
11/18 | Path connectedness | |
13 | 11/23 | Compactness |
11/25 | Thanksgiving Break | 14 | 11/30 | Compactness in metric spaces |
12/02 | Local compactness and compactification | 15 | 12/07 | Nets. Urysohn's Metrization Theorem |
12/09 | Introduction to Algebraic Topology |