Seminar in Topology

3-0-9 units · Undergraduate

Topics vary from year to year. Students present and discuss the subject matter. Instruction and practice in written and oral communication provided. Enrollment limited.

Spring 2011

This course is a seminar in topology. The main mathematical goal is to learn about the fundamental group, homology and cohomology. The main non-mathematical goal is to obtain experience giving math talks.

Readings

Hatcher, Allen. Algebraic Topology . Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521795401. [Preview with Google Books ] ↗
Listed reading
Massey, William S. A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology . Springer-Verlag, 1991. ISBN: 9783540974307.
Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: 18.901 U (Spring) 3-0-9 units

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2011
MIT OCW syllabus ↗
Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.