Wk | Date | Topics | Assignments |
1 | 8/30 | Introduction, intuitive notions | |
2 | 9/04 | Labor Day - No class | |
9/06 | Review of basic set theory | Homework 1 and a solution | |
3 | 9/11 | Distances, open sets in metric spaces | |
9/13 | Continuity in metric spaces, topological spaces | Homework 2 and a solution | |
4 | 9/18 | Basis of a topology | |
9/20 | Comparisons, order topologies | Homework 3 and a solution | |
5 | 9/25 | Product topologies | |
9/27 | Subspace topologies | ||
6 | 10/02 | Closed sets, neighborhoods | Homework 4, and a solution |
10/04 | Accumulation points, Hausdorff spaces, separation properties | ||
7 | 10/09 | Continuous functions, homeomorphisms | Homework 5 and a solution |
10/11 | Topologies on general products | ||
8 | 10/16 | The box and product topologies | |
10/18 | Midterm examination | A solution | |
9 | 10/23 | Metric topologies revisited | |
10/25 | The uniform topology | Homework 6 and a solution | |
10 | 10/30 | Sequential characterizations and uniform convergence | |
11/01 | Connectedness | ||
11 | 11/06 | Path connectedness | Homework 7 and a solution |
11/08 | Compactness | ||
12 | 11/13 | Compactness | |
11/15 | Compactness in metric spaces | Homework 8 and a solution | |
Thanksgiving Break | |||
13 | 11/27 | More on Lebesgue's covering number and local compactness | |
11/29 | Compactifications | ||
14 | 12/04 | Introduction to algebraic topology, I | |
12/06 | Introdution to algebraic topology, II | ||
🎓 | Dec. 13 | Final examination |