Theory Inleiding topologie 2018 (WISB 243)

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Inleiding topologie, period 2

1a. Week 46 (12 nov):
  • 1.1: basic ideas of topology, the idea of a topological space,
  • 1.2 ~ 7: specific examples; circle, sphere, sterographic projection, Moebius band, torus, Klein bottle
  • 1b. Week 46 (15 nov):
  • 1. 8: The projective plane
  • 1.9: quotient by an equivalence relation, abstract and associated to a glueing map (see the extra lecture notes in blackboard).
  • 1.10: open sets in a metric space, criterion for continuity. Compactness and completeness are deferred to a later lecture.
  • Definition 2.1 of topology.
  • 2a. Week 47 (19 nov):
  • 2.1: Examples of topologies, metrizable topology, subspace topology
  • 2.2: continuity of a map, calculus of preimages, homeomorphism, embedding.
  • 2.3: neighborhood, collection of neighborhoods of a point, continuity at a point
  • 2b. Week 47 (22 nov):
  • 2.3: sequential continuity versus continuity, basis of neighborhoods of a point, first countability axiom.Thm 2.29 and 2.34.
  • 2.4: the notions of open, closed, boundary
  • 2.5: Hausdorff property, uniqueness of limits of sequences
  • 3a. Week 48 (26 nov):
  • 2.5: second countability, topological manifolds.
  • postponed: 2.6: more on separation, normality, metric spaces are normal, Urysohn metrizability thm mentioned
  • 3.1: the quotient topology, continuity of the induced map.
  • 3.2: examples of quotients; when induced map is embedding
  • 3b. Week 48 (29 nov):
  • 3.3 Quotients by group actions, Hausdorffness preserved,
  • 3.4 The projective space realized as a topological quotient
  • 4a. Week 49 (3 dec):
  • 3.5 Product topologies
  • 3.6 special classes of quotients II: collapsing, cone, suspension, simplex
  • 3.7 topology basis, Prop. 3.17
  • 3.8 topology generated by a collection of subsets, basis of generated topology
  • 4b. Week 49 (6 dec):
  • 3.8 initial topologies for a collection of maps
  • 3.9 examples of initial topologies, topologies on spaces of functions.
  • 4.1.1 the notion of connectedness, proof that [0,1] is connected.
  • 4.1.2: basic properties of connectedness
  • 5a. Week 50 (10 dec):
  • 4.1.2 basic properties of connectedness, continued
  • 4.1.3 connected components,
  • 4.1.4 connectedness versus pathwise connectedness
  • 4.2.1 compactness, [0,1] is compact.
  • 5b. Week 50 (13 dec):
  • 4.2.2 topological properties of compact spaces, normality
  • 2.6 normality of metric spaces
  • 4.2.3 compactness of products,
  • 4.2.4 compactness under continuous functions.
  • 6a. Week 51 (17 dec): the lecture will be given by Marius Crainic.
  • 4.2.5: embeddings of compact topological manifolds
  • 4.2.6: sequential compactness
  • 4.3.1: locally compact Hausdorff spaces, Exercise 4.10, 2nd countable case: existence of exhaustion by compacts
  • 6b. Week 51 (20 dec): the lecture will be given by Marius Crainic.
  • 4.3.2: the one point compactification of a locally compact Hausdorff space
  • 4.3.2: on second countability


  • Week 52: this week no lecture (Christmas holiday)
    Week 1 : this week no lecture (Christmas holiday)



    7a. Week 2 (7 jan):
  • 5.1 and 5.2: finite partitions of unity, Lemma 5.3 and Thm 5.6.
  • 5.3. locally finiteness, refinement, paracompactness (definitions).
  • 7b. Week 2 (10 jan):
  • 5.3, paracompactness and normality (proof of Lemma 5.17).
  • Lemma 5.17: shrinking lemma.
  • arbitrary partitions of unity: Theorem 5.18.
  • 5.4, the locally compact case, Thm 5.20
  • Thm 5.19, criterion for normality of a family of functions.
  • 8a. Week 3 (14 jan):
  • Completeion of Thm 5.19
  • 5. Urysohn's lemma, Thm 5.21.
  • 8b. Week 3 (17 jan): last lecture Inleiding topologie
  • 7.1: Urysohn metrization theorem;
  • 7.2: Smirnov metrization thoerem.
  • for the proofs of both, see the extra notes in blackboard, course content.

  • 9a. Week 4 (21 jan): no lecture, but question and rehearsal session

    9b. Week 4 (24 jan): no lecture, just exercise class.

    10 Week 5: exam week

    Last change: 22/11 - 2018