Geometry & Topology I: 189-576A

Lectures: T/Th 1:05 – 2:25, 920 Burnside Hall

Instructor: Daniel Wise

923 Burnside Hall,

office hrs. Tue 12pm-1pm + 15min after every class

398-3850 

Text: J.R. Munkres, Topology, second edition Prentice Hall, 2000.

Recommended:  Hatcher: Algebraic Topology

Seifert and Threlfall's, Textbook of Topology

   Armstrong,  Basic Topology

Course description: The first part of the course will be devoted to basic point-set topology,

including continuity, connectedness,  compactness, product spaces, quotient spaces,

separation axioms, metric spaces, complexes, and the classification of surfaces.

The second part of the course will focus on the fundamental group, and covering spaces.

We hope to introduce simplicial homology as well.

Homework: There will be about a dozen assignments. Late homework will not be accepted.

The grader is Hadi Bigdely. Please submit the homework to his mailbox on the due date.

Midterm: There will be a midterm during the semester on 2:30-4pm, October 19^th in B1214.

Final Exam: 3 hour exam covering the entire course on 9am, Dec 19^th .

Calculators: A small (non-scientific) calculator will be permitted during the exams.

Grades: 25% HW + 25% Midterm + 50% Final

Supplemental: There will be an official supplemental exam worth 50% of the mark.

You know it: Mastery of the material requires that the students devote a significant amount of time to reading

the textbook and solving problems.

McGill University values academic integrity.  Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).

Cancelled: Tue Sept 18^th; Tue Oct 2^nd; Tue Oct 9^th; and Thu Nov 22^nd.

Rescheduled to: Fri Sept 21^st (BURN719); Fri Sept 28^th(BURN719); Fri Oct 12^th (in BURN1214); and Fri Nov 16^th(BURN1214).