Welcome to MAT3500/MAT4500

This is the fall 2024 semester page for the course MAT3500/MAT4500 - Topology.? We will use the textbook "Topology" (second edition) by James Munkres, supplemented by the lecture notes

which are based on chapters 1-5, 7 and 9 of that book.? Last updates:

  • August 27: correction in Remark 2.1.14.
  • October 7: Sections 3.1 and 3.2 assume that (path) connected spaces are nonempty.
  • October 23: minor additions in Sections 3.3, 3.4 and 3.7.
  • November 5: updated claim numbers in proof of Urysohn's lemma.

The topics to be outlined during the Tuesday and Wednesday lectures will be listed on the semester schedule

  • /studier/emner/matnat/math/MAT4500/h24/timeplan/index.html

and the exercises (from Munkres' book) to be discussed during the Thursday problem sessions will also be listed on that schedule.

Published Aug. 12, 2024 11:31 AM - Last modified Jan. 21, 2026 1:54 PM