MATH 429 INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY (Metric spaces, topological spaces, separation axioms, product spaces, identificaiton spaces, compactness, connectedness, fundamental group)

  • Instructor: Anton Petrunin
  • Class: MWF 10:10–11:00, Room 014 Henderson
  • Office hours: Wed. 2:30–3:30, McAlister 333
    • Textbook: Elementary Topology: A First Course by O. Ya. Viro, O. A. Ivanov, N. Yu. Netsvetaev, V. M. Kharlamov

  • Part 1. Chapters: I – IV
  • Part 2. Chapter VI
    • Midterms/HWA/Quizzes/Extra

  • Midterms: Feb 15, March 28, May 2 NO FINAL!!!
  • HWA: usually assigned on Mon and usually is due next Mon.
  • Quizzes: once a week, usually (not always!) on Wed, based on previous HWA.
  • Extra credit problems: it is hard and interesting problems, the solutions should be presents orally. Only the first solution will be graded. It might improve your score, but should be used for fun.
    • Grading policy:

  • Each HWA = 8,
  • Each Quiz = 8,
  • Each Midterm = 80,
  • Each extra credit problem = 16.
    • No makeups! Two worse HWA and Quizzes will be dropped.

  • 90% guarantees "A".
  • 80% guarantees "B".
  • 70% guarantees "C".
  • 55% guarantees "D".

    • The lowest three percentage points of a range will be minus and the highest three percentage points of a range will be plus.

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