Math 141 Suggested Syllabus

Text: Introduction to Topology, T. Gamelin and R. Greene

Lecture Section Topic
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1.1 Open and Closed Sets
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1.1 Cont.
3
1.2 Completeness
4
1.2 Cont.
5
1.3 The Real Line
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1.4 Products of Metric Spaces
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1.5 Compactness
8
1.5 Cont.
9
1.5 Cont.
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1.6 Continuous Functions
11 1.6, 1.7 Cont.
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1.7 Normed Linear Spaces
13
1.8 The Contraction Principle
14
----- Review
15
----- Midterm
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2.1 Topological Spaces
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2.1 Cont.
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2.2 Subspaces
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2.3 Continuous Functions
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2.4 Base for a Topology
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2.5 Separation Axioms
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2.5 Cont.
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2.6 Compactness
24
2.6 Cont.
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2.7 Locally Compact Spaces*
26
2.8 Connectedness*
27
2.9 Path Connectedness*
28
2.1 Finite Product Spaces*
29
---- Review
*Sections are optional. These lectures may be replaced by other topics of the instructors choice, e.g.,
Homotopy Theory.