Course Syllabus


 

Sections

Brief Description

Week 1

1,2

6,7

June 26: Course Structure, Meeting Times, Ground Rules

Lecture Video: Fundamental Set Theory and Functions

Lecture Video: Finite, Countable, and Uncountable Sets

Week 2

12

13

3,14

June 29: Topological Spaces

July 1: Basis for a Topology

July 3: Order Relations and the Order Topology

Week 3

15,16

17

July 6: The Product Topology on XY and the Subspace Topology

July 8: Closed Sets

July 10: Limit Points and the Hausdorff Property

Week 4

18

19

July 13: Continuous Functions and their Construction

July 15: Homeomorphisms

July 17: Product Topology vs. Box Topology

Week 5

 23

 25

 26

July 20: Connectedness

July 22: Path Connectedness, Components, Local Connectedness

July 24: Compactness

Week 6

N/A

51

58

July 27: Battle of the Spaces

July 29: Homotopy

July 31: Deformation Retracts and Homotopy Type

Week 7

52

54

60,74

August 3: Fundamental Group Day 1

August 5: Fundamental Group Day 2

August 7: Surfaces

Week 8

74

76

77

August 10: Polygonal Regions

August 12: Cutting + Pasting

August 14: Classification of Surfaces

Week 9

N/A

Knot Theory Playtime!

Week 10

TBD

TBD