Instructor | Class meetings | Office hours | Syllabus | Notes from class | Exams, homework, and grading | Useful links

Instructor

Class meetings

Tuesday and Thursday 9:30-10:45
Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, room 326

Problem session (MATH 8205)
Tuesday 3:30-4:45
Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center, room to be announced.

Office hours

Monday 11:15-12:05
Wednesday 11:15-12:05
Thursday 3:30-5:00
Friday 11:15-12:05
or by appointment

Syllabus

The textbook is Algebraic Topology, by Allen Hatcher. We will cover chapters 0, 1, and 2.

Summary of topics: Quotient spaces and cell complexes. Classification of surfaces. Fundamental group and covering spaces. Homology.

Notes from class

Free product of groups

Exams, homework, and grading

Homework will be assigned every week. Grades will be based on homework (50%) and a final exam (50%). There will be no exams during the term. The final exam will be similar to the PhD qualifying exam in topology. In particular it will contain topics from MATH 4200. The final exam is Thursday, May 4, 8:00-11:00 am.

Homework 1
Homework 2
Homeworks 3-7
Homework 8
Homeworks 9-10

Useful links

Links will be posted here.

This page was created on January 10, 2006. It was last modified on April 16, 2006.