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== Desired Learning Outcomes ==
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== Catalog Information ==
  
=== Prerequisites ===
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=== Title ===
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Foundations of Topology 2.
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=== (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours) ===
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(3:3:0)
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=== Offered ===
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W
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=== Prerequisite ===
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[[Math 553]] or instructor's consent.
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=== Description ===
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Fundamental group, retractions and fixed points, homotopy types, separation theorems, classification of surfaces, Seifert-van Kampen Theorem,
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classification of covering spaces, and applications to group theory.
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== Desired Learning Outcomes ==
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Students should gain a familiarity with surfaces, fundamental group, and covering spaces.
  
 
=== Minimal learning outcomes ===
 
=== Minimal learning outcomes ===
  
 
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# The Fundamenatal Group
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# The topology of the plane
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#* Jordan Curve Theorem
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# Seifert-van Kampen Theorem
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# Classification of Surfaces
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# Classification of Covering Spaces
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#  Group Theory
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#* Free groups
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#* Free abelian groups
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#* Presentations of groups
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#* Subgroups of free groups
  
 
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=== Textbooks ===
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Possible textbooks for this course include (but are not limited to):
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*
  
 
=== Additional topics ===
 
=== Additional topics ===

Latest revision as of 11:07, 14 November 2019

Catalog Information

Title

Foundations of Topology 2.

(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

(3:3:0)

Offered

W

Prerequisite

Math 553 or instructor's consent.

Description

Fundamental group, retractions and fixed points, homotopy types, separation theorems, classification of surfaces, Seifert-van Kampen Theorem, classification of covering spaces, and applications to group theory.

Desired Learning Outcomes

Students should gain a familiarity with surfaces, fundamental group, and covering spaces.

Minimal learning outcomes

  1. The Fundamenatal Group
  2. The topology of the plane
    • Jordan Curve Theorem
  3. Seifert-van Kampen Theorem
  4. Classification of Surfaces
  5. Classification of Covering Spaces
  6. Group Theory
    • Free groups
    • Free abelian groups
    • Presentations of groups
    • Subgroups of free groups

Textbooks

Possible textbooks for this course include (but are not limited to):

Additional topics

Courses for which this course is prerequisite