? Credit Points : 20  ? SCQF Level : 10  ? Acronym : MAT-4-Top

Course for final year students in Honours programmes in Mathematics.

Metric spaces. Topological spaces. Compactness, connectedness, path-connectedness. Identification spaces. Compact surfaces. Homotopy. Fundamental groups and their calculation. Covering spaces.

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Home subject area

Specialist Mathematics & Statistics (Honours), (School of Mathematics, Schedule P)

? Normal year taken : 4th year

? Delivery Period : Full Year (Blocks 1-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) per week for 22 weeks

First Class Information

Date Start End Room Area Additional Information 07/01/2008 10:00 11:00 Lecture Room 5215, JCMB KB

All of the following classes

Type Day Start End Area Lecture Monday 10:00 10:50 KB Lecture Thursday 10:00 10:50 KB

? Additional Class Information : Moves in S2 to M&Th at 1000 hrs

1. Familiarity with abstract arguments
2. Ability to argue in general and apply the ideas to specific examples
3. Knowledge about topology and its role in mathematics
4. Familiarity with results that need topological ideas in their proofs
5. The ability to calculate with generators and relations of groups
6. An ability to calculate some invariants of knots and link

Coursework 15%; Examination 85%.

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST May 1 - 3 hour(s)

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Ms Jennifer Marshall
Tel : (0131 6)50 5048
Email : Jennifer.Marshall@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Liam O Carroll
Tel : (0131 6)50 5070
Email : L.O'Carroll@ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://student.maths.ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.scieng.ed.ac.uk/