406-2554-AAL Topology
| Semester | Spring Semester 2022 |
| Lecturers | P. Feller |
| Periodicity | every semester recurring course |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Comment | Enrolment ONLY for MSc students with a decree declaring this course unit as an additional admission requirement. Any other students (e.g. incoming exchange students, doctoral students) CANNOT enrol for this course unit. |
| Abstract | Topics covered include: Topological and metric spaces, continuity, connectedness, compactness, product spaces, separation axioms, quotient spaces, homotopy, fundamental group, covering spaces. |
| Learning objective | An introduction to topology i.e. the domain of mathematics that studies how to define the notion of continuity on a mathematical structure, and how to use it to study and classify these structures. |
| Lecture notes | See lecture homepage: https://metaphor.ethz.ch/x/2017/fs/401-2554-00L/ |
| Literature | James Munkres: Topology |
| Prerequisites / Notice | The precise content changes with the examiner. Candidates must therefore contact the examiner in person before studying the material. |