Syllabus/curriculum

We will follow Allen Hatcher's textbook "Algebraic Topology", principally covering Chapters 1 and 2.

Chapter 0: Pages 1-10 (omit house with two rooms on page 4, joins on page 9, smash product on page 10, and pages 11-17).

Chapter 1: Pages 21-71 (omit Examples 1.23, 1.35, representing covering spaces by permutations on pages 68-70, and pages 72-78).

Chapter 2. Pages 97-165 (omit mapping telescope on pages 138-139, Examples 2.38, 2.39, and split exact sequences on pages 147-148).

Material from Sections 2.A and 2.B or Appendix A will not be required for the exam.