MA 516 - Topology

Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: No Offered Other: No

Credits: 4
Hours (Lecture/Discussion/Lab): 4-0-0
Graded: A/F

Prerequisites: Graduate student or accelerated bachelors student in mathematics or instructor permission.
Co-requisites: None

This is an advanced course in topology. The instructor will cover the following topics: topological spaces, continuous functions, compactness, connectedness, the fundamental group, and homology. Additionally, the instructor may focus on topics such as: the classification of surfaces, cohomology, the Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, or topics from knot theory.