Math 4710 & 5710 (Section 101) Homepage
News & Announcements
12/14 All tests and final exam with answer keys (plus LaTeX source) now posted here.
12/12 I just posted final grades on AsULearn. Your (projected or significantly curved)
final exam grade as well as your final course average are posted. Your course
letter grade is posted as a comment on the final course average.
For those who took the final: If you'd like to see you exam, just stop by my office sometime.
If you have departmental mailbox, I put your final homework assignment in your box.
Otherwise, if you would like to get back your final homework, stop by my office sometime.
Even though the course is over, I'm still happy to help if I can. Always feel free to stop
by (or email) and ask about anything. :)
Have a Merry Christmas!
12/01 Separation Axioms + Odds and Ends (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
11/27 Homework #9 (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
11/19 Notes on Filters (.pdf) by Alex Kruckman
Notes on Convergence (.pdf) by Pete Clark
Kruckman's notes are concise, clear and on point for what I want to discuss in class.
Clark's notes have a lot of nice information tying various things together. You
can find a lot about nets and more details about filters in his notes.
11/14 Test #2 Take Home (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
11/07 Our "In-the-midst" term Exam is next Friday (November 14th).
It will cover chapters 2 & 3.
I have just updated the suggested homework page. Try as many of these problems
as possible. By the way, I was going to assign:
Section 26 #3 (page 171) and Section 27 #3 (pages 177-178) as the next homework
assignment (with 3c as a grad problem).
I plan to finish chapter 3 on Monday and then spend Wednesday tying up loose ends
and reviewing for the test.
The test will have in-class and a take-home portions. The in-class stuff should
be "elementary" and the take-home part have problems which require more thought.
You may bring 1 page of notes to the test (8.5" x 11" front and back).
Also, all previous homework is due on Monday. If it's not in by then, don't
bother turning it in. (Man, that's sounds pretty harsh.)
10/28 Homework #8: Do problem #9 in Section 23 (page 152) and problem #8 in Section 24 (page 158).
Grad students: Also, turn in problem #10 in Section 24 (page 158).
These are due Wednesday, November 5th.
10/10 Homework #7 (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
10/08 Circles/Spheres in different metrics
10/06 Homework #6: Do problem #10 (Section 18, page 112).
This is due next Monday (Oct. 13th).
09/26 Homework #5: Do problems #6 and #13 (Section 17, pages 100-101). Grad students do #17 as well.
This is due next Friday (Oct. 3rd).
09/17 Homework #4: Do problem #8 (Section 13, page 83). This is due next Wednesday (Sept. 24th).
09/15 Click here for an extra copy of Test #1.
09/08 Our "Set Test" is Monday, September 15th.
09/03 Homework #3 (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
08/29 Cantor-Schroder-Bernstein
The Axioms of ZFC
08/26 Homework #2 (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
08/21 We've been moved. We will now meet in WA 308. Sorry for the confusion!
08/20 The syllabi for 4710 and 5710, the tentative schedule, suggested homework, and asULearn pages are all updated.
Homework #1 (.pdf) [source (.tex)]
07/28 I am planning on using Topology by James Munkres (2nd edition).
ISBN: 9780131816299
There seem to be copies available for about $20 (watch out for international
shipping)...
Abebooks.com
You may want to purchase this sooner rather than later.
*********THE BOOKSTORE WON'T CARRY OUR TEXT***************
Good (cheap) alternative references...
"Topology for Analysis" by Albert Wilansky
ISBN: 978-0-486-46903-4 has a list price of $22.95. Looking at Bookfinder.com
and AddAll.com it seems that you can get a copy for around $10.
"Introduction to Topology" by Bert Mendelson.
ISBN: 978-0486663524 which can be
purchased for less than $10: Bookfinder.com OR AddAll.com
By the way, Munkres' text is semi (possibly not) legally available
online via pdf scans...
Munkres' Topology (link 1) and Munkres' Topology (link 2)
But I can't find anything online which says the copyright has
been released. So making that official isn't kosher.
06/23 Course Data
MAT 4710 & 5710 Section 101
Title Introduction to Topology
Meeting Times MWF 12:00pm-12:50pm
Room WA 105
Final Exam Friday, December 12th 3:00pm-5:30pm
Syllabus, suggested homework and schedule pages
will be posted...
Course Title & Description:
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MAT 4710 & 5710. Introduction to Topology (3 credits)
A study of the basic concepts of general topological spaces including
such topics as metric spaces, continuous functions, connectedness,
product spaces, and compactness.
Prerequisite: MAT 3220. (SPEAKING)
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Any questions about this class?
Send me an email at cookwj@appstate.edu