Sem 2 2023/24: Topology
Lectures: Tuesday 09-11 and Thursday 09-11 Office Hours: Thursday 11:15-12:10 in S1
Topics to be covered in this course:
- Topological Spaces and Continuous Functions
- Connectedness and compactness
- Countability and Separation Axioms
- Tychonoff Theorem
- Complete Metric Spaces and Function Spaces
Lectures
- 04.01: Lecture 1: Introduction, Sets and Functions
- 09.01: Lecture 2: Topological spaces
- 11.01: Lecture 3: (Sub)Basis, Product and subspace topology
- 16.01: Lecture 4: Closed sets and limits
- 18.01: Lecture 5: Hausdorff spaces; Continuous functions
- 23.01: Quiz 1
           Lecture 6: Constructing continuous functions - 25.01: Lecture 7: Product and metric topology
- 30.01: Lecture 8: Metric topology (contd.)
- 01.02: Lecture 9: Metric and Quotient topology
- 06.02: Lecture 10: Quotient topology (contd.)
- 08.02: Lecture 11: Connectedness
- 13.02: Quiz 2
           Lecture 12: Components and local connectedness - 15.02: Lecture 13: Compactness Mid-Semester break
- 27.02: Lecture 14: Compact subspaces of the real line (Ritaman Ghosh)
- 29.02: Lecture 15: Problem session (Ritaman Ghosh)
- 05.03: Lecture 16: Limit point compactness and local compactness
- 07.03: Lecture 17: Countability and separation axioms
- 12.03: Quiz 3
           Lecture 18: The Urysohn lemma - 14.03: Lecture 19: Tietze extension theorem; Manifolds
- 19.03: Lecture 20: Tychonoff theorem (Ritaman Ghosh)
- 21.03: Lecture 21: Complete metric spaces (Ritaman Ghosh)
- 26.03: Lecture 22: Compactness in metric spaces; topologies of convergence on function spaces
- 28.03: Lecture 23: Compact-open topology; Topological groups
- 02.04: Lecture 24: Nets and subnets
- 04.04: Quiz 4
           Lecture 25: Stone–Čech compactification
Exercises
- 13.01: Assignment 1 (Quiz on 23.01)
- 03.02: Assignment 2 (Quiz on 13.02)
- 02.03: Assignment 3 (Quiz on 12.03)
- 26.03: Assignment 4 (Quiz on 04.04)
Exams
- Midsem: 19.02.2024
- Endsem: 22.04.2024
References
- J. R. Munkres, Topology: a first course, 1974
- J. Dugundji, Topology, 1966
- C. McMullen, Topology, Course notes, Harvard University, Fall 2013