DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

College of Science, UP Baguio

Course Number: MATH 140

Course Title: Topological Structures
Credit Units: 3 units (3 hours lecture)
Prerequisite: Junior Standing

Instructor: W.V. Alangui

upbwva@gmail.com
1st semester 2018-2019

Objectives: At the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1. Explain the importance of topology as a field of mathematics;
2. Define, give examples of, prove theorems and solve problems involving topological spaces,
continuous functions, connected and compact spaces; and
3. Enumerate, give examples, and solve problems involving countability axioms, separation
axioms, metric spaces and metrizability.

Course Requirements:
3 Long Exams 60%
Problem Sets/Quizzes/Class Participation 10%
Final Exam 30%

COURSE OUTLINE

1. SET THEORY AND LOGIC

1.1 Fundamental Concepts
1.2 Functions & Relations
1.3 Finite Sets
1.4 Countable and Uncountable Sets
1.5 Infinite Sets and the Axiom of Choice
1.6 Partially Ordered and Well-Ordered Sets

2. TOPOLOGICAL SPACES AND CONTINUOUS FUNCTIONS

2.1 Topological Spaces
2.2 Basis for a Topology

FIRST LONG EXAMINATION

2.3 The Order Topology

2.4 The Product Topology
2.5 The Subspace Topology
2.6 Closed Sets and Limit Points
2.7 Continuous Functions
2.8 The Metric Topology

SECOND LONG EXAMINATION

 3. CONNECTEDNESS AND COMPACTNESS
3.1 Connected Spaces
3.2 Connected Sets in the Real Line
3.3 Compact Spaces
3.4 Compact Sets in the Real Line

4. COUNTABILITY AND SEPARATION AXIOMS

4.1 The Countability Axioms
4.2 The Separation Axioms
4.3 Normal Spaces and the Urysohn Lemma

THIRD LONG EXAMINATION

Textbook: Munkres, J. (2000). Topology: A First Course, 2nd ed. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall

References:

Arnold, B. H. (2011). Intuitive Concepts in Elementary Topology. New York: Dover

Publications

Krantz, S. (2010). Essentials of Topology with Applications. Boca Raton: CRC Press

Lipschutz, S. (2012). General Topology. New York: McGraw-Hill

Nash, C. (2011). Topology and Geometry for Physicists. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.

Simmons, G. F. (2003). Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis. Malabar: Krieger

Publishing.

Singh, T. (2013). Elements of Topology. Boca Raton: CRC Press

Wayne Patty, C. (2009). Foundations of Topology, 2nd ed. MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers