General Information

Current Information
We are going to have our second exam on the 25th of September in lecture hall III.
Assistant
M. Sc. Manuel Kany
Creditpoints
6 ECTS
First lecture
Tuesday, October 15, 10 am
Weekly lectures
Tuesday, 10 am, Seminar Room 10, E 2.4
Content
The lecture is an introduction to set-theoretic topology. The topics of the lecture include: compactness, product topologies, Urysohn's Lemma and Tietze's Extension theorem, continuous partitions of unity, metrization theorems, Stone-Weierstraß theorem.
Prerequisites
Analysis I, Analysis II
Office hours
You can come to office 416 in building E2 4 at any time if you have questions about the organization or the content of this lecture.

Exams

Criteria
50% of the achievable points from the exercise sheets; Passing of an oral or a written exam
Type of exam
Oral or written exam depending on the number of participants.
Examination dates
As always you are allowed to use a handwritten two-sided (one page) cheat sheet in the exam.
  • First Exam: February 22 from 9-12 in lecture hall II.
  • Second Exam: September 25 from 9-12 in lecture hall I.

Tutorials service

Exercises
The exercise session will take place every Wednesday from 14-16 in seminar room 5. The first exercise session will be on October 30.
Consulation hour
There will be a consulation hour held by Marc Hermes. It will take place every Thursday from 10-11 in the room for group work.

Literature and lecture notes

Script
Here a link to the script of the lecture in topology from the winter term 17/18:
https://www.math.uni-sb.de/ag/eschmeier/lehre/WS1718/top/skript/Topologie.pdf
Literature
The following books can 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.