BITS-PILANI,HYDERABAD CAMPUS

INSTRUCTION DIVISION
FIRST SEMESTER 2013-2014
Course Handout (Part II)
Date: 01/08/2013
In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the timetable) this portion
gives further specific details regarding the course.
Course No.
: MATH C331/MATH F311
Course Title
: INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY
Instructor-in-charge : M.S. Radhakrishnan
1.
Course Description: Metric Spaces; Topological Spaces subspaces; Continuity and
homeomorphism; Quotient spaces and Product spaces; separation axioms; Urysohns lemma
and Tietze extension theorem; Connectedness; Compactness; Tychonoffs Theorem; Locally
Compact Spaces; Homotopy and the fundamental group.
2.
Scope and Objective of the Course: To introduce the students to concepts of logical
thinking in abstract terms using formal and axiomatic methods and to lay the foundations for
further studies in abstract mathematics.
Don't just read it; fight
examples, discover your own
converse true? What happens
degenerate cases? Where does

it! Ask your own questions, look for your own

proofs. Is the hypothesis necessary? Is the
in the classical special case? What about the
the proof use the hypothesis?

3.
4.

Text Book: Munkres, J.R.: Topology, PHI (Second Edition), 2000

Reference Books:
1. Albert Wilansky, Topology for Analysis, Xerox
2. John L. Kelley, General topology., van Nostrand. Reprinted (1976) by Springer
Verlag
3. L. A. Steen and J. A. Seebach, Counterexamples in topology, Springer, 1978.
4. C. Wayne Patty, Foundations of Topology, Second Edition, Jones & Bartlett,
2009

5.

Course Plan:
Lec.
No.
1-2
3-4
5
6
7
8-9
10-11
12-13
14-16
17-18
19-21

Topics to be Covered
Sets and Functions
Topological Spaces; Examples
Basis and subbasis
Subspaces & Subspace Topology
Finite Products
Closed sets and limit points
Continuous functions; homeomorphisms
Arbitrary products
Metric topology
Quotient topology
Connectedness & its Importance

Ref. To text book:

Sec.
1-10
12
13
16
15
17
18
19
20-21
22
23-25

P.T.O.

22-24
25-26
27-29
30-32
33-34
35
36-38
39-40
41-42
6.

Varieties of Compactness
Locally Compact spaces
Countability axioms
Separation axioms
Normal spaces; Urysohns lemma
Urysohn Metrization Theorem
Tychonoffs Theorem; Completely Regular Spaces
Homotopy of Paths
The Fundamental Group

26-28
29
30
31
32-33
34
37
51
52

Evaluation Scheme:
EC Evaluation Component
No.

Duration Weightage Date,

1.

Test I

60 min

24%

2.

Test II

60 min

24%

3.

Quizzesannounced/unannounced

4.

Comprehensive
Examination

12%

3 hrs

40%

Time

27/9, 5.00 -- 6.00

PM
12/11, 5.00 -6.00 PM
Dates may be
announced in the
class
03/12 ,2.00
5.00 PM

Nature of
Component
CB
OB
CB

CB

7. Make-up Policy: Make-up will be given only for very genuine cases and prior permission
has to be obtained from I/C.
8. Chamber consultation hours: To be announced in the class.
9. Notices: The notices concerning this course will be displayed on the LTC Notice Board
only.
Instructor-in-charge
MATH C331