Math 1410
time/place: Tu-Th 9:00-10:20
in Barus & Holley 160
instuctor: Prof. Rich Schwartz
my office hours: Kassar 302. Time Thurs 12-1
TA Taro Shima (Taro_Shima@brown.edu)
course description: This is an undergraduate course on
topology. Topics include:
- point-set topology: compactness, connectedness, etc.
- theory and classification of surfaces
- triangulations
- fundamental group and covering spaces
- homology; fixed point theorems
Text: Basic Topology, by M.A. Armstrong
I'll cover much of the material in Chapters 1-8,
but not all of it.
Sometimes I will supplement the text with my own notes.
Homework There will be weekly HW assignments,
assigned
each Tuesday and collected the following Tuesday.
There is no late HW.
Click here for the assignments.
Grading
HW: 35%
Midterm: 30 %
Final: 35 %
Notes