Ma109a: Introduction to Geometry and Topology
Resources for the class
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Summary of Lectures and Notes
- September 27: preliminaries on set theory lecture notes
- September 29: more preliminaries on set theory lecture notes
- October 1: introduction to category theory
- October 4: introduction to category theory lecture notes (October 1 and 4)
- October 6: constructions in categories lecture notes
- October 8: constructions in categories (continued, same notes)
- October 11: topological spaces lecture notes
- October 13: constructions in topological spaces lecture notes
- October 15: constructions in topological spaces lecture notes and lecture notes and lecture notes
- October 18: metric spaces lecture notes and
additional notes
- October 20: connectedness lecture notes and
additional notes
- October 22: separation and compactness lecture notes
- October 25: compactness lecture notes
- October 27: separation and metrization lecture notes
- October 29: metrization (continuation)
- November 1: filters and ultrafilters lecture notes
- November 3: ultrafilters (continued)
- November 5: classification of topological surfaces lecture notes
and other reading material pdf N1 , pdf N2 , pdf N3
- November 8: classification of surfaces (continued)
- November 10: classification of surfaces (continued)
- November 12: Borsuk separation and Jordan-Schoenflies theorem lecture notes
- November 15: Borsuk separation and Jordan-Schoenflies theorem (continued)
- November 17: triangulation of surfaces lecture notes
- November 19: triangulation of surfaces (continued)
- November 22: fundamental groupoid and fundamental group lecture notes
- November 24: informal discussion on Zoom on topology as a current research field (not recorded)
- November 29: fundamental group (continued)
- December 1: fundamental group and covering spaces lecture notes
- December 3: fundamental group and Seifert-van Kampen theorem; homology lecture notes
Homework
Midterm and Final