General Information

Current Information
The lecture and exercise session are going to be held online.
If you want to participate in the lecture, please send and e-mail to kany[at]math.uni-sb.de with the following information:
  • surname, forename
  • matriculation number
  • date of birth
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Jörg Eschmeier
Assistant
Manuel Kany
Credit points
6 CP
First lecture
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Appointments
Tuesday, 10-12 a.m., SR 10 in E 2.4
Content
The lecture treats topics from set-theoretical and algebraic topology, among them paracompact spaces, metrization theorems (Nagata-Smirnov), function spaces, Arzela-Ascoli's theorem, Stone-Cech compactification, fundamental groups and universal covering spaces.
Prerequisites
Analysis I, Analysis II. Topology I is recommended.
Office Hours
You can ask questions concerning the organization or contents of the lecture at any time in Room 416, Builduing E 2.4

Exams

Criteria
Successful participation in exercise groups; 50% of the points achievable in the homework assignments, passing of the final exam
Type of exam
Oral exam
Examination date
To be agreed on with the lecturer at the end of the semester.

Tutorials service

Exercise groups
The exercises will be held by Marc Hermes. We arrange our exercise sessions in the first lecture.

Exercise Sheets

Material

Literature
The following books can also be found in the course reserve
- Querenburg, Mengentheoretische Topologie, Springer.
- Munkres, Topology. A First Course, Prentice Hall.
- Simmons, Topology and Modern Analysis, McGraw-Hill.
- Kelley, General Topology, van Nostrand.
- Runde, A Taste of Topology, Springer.