Office hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 2:00 - 2:40 p.m., and 3:50 - 4:00 p.m.
Meeting times and place:
Room 243, William Vernon Skiles Classroom Building
Class roll: Please take a look at the class roll. If you believe you to be registered for the class, and your name does not appear here, you should check with the Office of the Registrar.
Important notice: Please read this important notice.
Textbook: There is no "official" textbook for the course. I am preparing a fine set of notes. These will be continually under construction as the drama of the semester unfolds. We shall begin the course discussing elementary general topology. A nice (very nice) reference for this material is:
Some references for subsequent material are:
Grade: At the end of the term, the
authorities will insist that I give each student a grade for the course. I
shall determine this grade from your performance on a sequence of homework
assignments and on a final examination. There will be no in-class
quizzes during the term. In deciding on course grades, the homework scores
will count 75% and the final examination, 25%.
Homework: Here are the
assignments for you to hand in. Please take a look at
your homework scores and let me know if there are
errors, or if you have any questions about them. Thanks.
Degree candidates: The Office of the
Registrar has provided a list of
degree candidates for this term. Take a look. If you believe
yourself to be a degree candidate and do not see your name on this list,
take the matter up with the Registrar's Office.
Final examination: The Office of the
Registrar has published the Final Examination schedule for the Summer
term. The examination for Math 6021 is scheduled for Room 243, Skiles Building There will be a conflict period at which you may take the examination if
you wish. The conflict period is Thursday, July 27, 12:30 p.m.-3:20 p.m.
Please be reminded that you will be allowed to use any books, notes, tables,
calculators, computers, or whatever, you wish on the examination.
Notes: The discoverer (or inventor) of
general topology as we study it today is
Felix Hausdorff.
You can see a brief
biographical sketch if you'd like. There is another
biographical note
here.
It has links to some topological history you might find interesting.
You can see the problem mentioned in class Friday, June 2, from the
American Mathematical Monthly.
It's Problem 10341, from vol. 100, #3,
(1993).
Take a look at a
biographical note about
Andrei
Tychonoff.
The two mathematicians for whom the Hahn-Banach Theorem is named are
Hans Hahn
and Stefan Banach. You can see a
biographical sketch of Hahn and one of
Banach.
A biography of
L. E. J. Brouwer of Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem fame is also available.
Take a look at a brief
biography of
Stefan Mazurkiewicz, one of those for whom the celebrated
Knaster-Kuratowski-Mazurkiewicz Theorem is named. You can also read about the
life of
Kazimierz Kuratowski.
Course Grades: Have a look at your
grade for the course. If you have any question
whatsoever about the grade you received, please let me know.
