Fall 2011
MATH 4220/6220 HOMEPAGE
Ted Shifrin

MATH 4220/6220, Differential Topology, meets MWF 9:05–9:55

Text: Victor Guillemin and Alan Pollack, Differential Topology, AMS Chelsea Publishing, 2010.

Strongly recommended: John Milnor, Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint, The University Press of Virginia, 1965 (64 pages!). Reissued by Princeton University Press in paperback in 1997 (76 pages) and available for approximately $20.

Homework (55%) will be collected regularly on Mondays. There will be one midterm exam (15%), on October 7 or 14, 2011, and the final exam (30%) will be Friday, December 9, 2011.

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