wi4041: Topology
This is an introduction to General Topology with a fixed and a variable part.
Every year the fixed part treats:
- topological spaces
- separation properties
- compactness and products
See below for sample variable parts.
Blackboard
There is also a
Blackboard page for this course.
Lecture notes
Here are lecture notes sorted by their special topics
- Boolean Algebras
- In Dutch: an introduction to the representation of Boolean algebras.
- Metrizability
- In Dutch: the problem of how to recognize/characterize when a topology
is derived from a metric
- The Cech-Stone compactification
- In English: what spaces are the subspaces of compact Hausdorff spaces.
- Function spaces
- In Dutch: how to topologize function spaces and how to recognize
compact sets of functions.
Other courses
Here are notes to courses that I taught at the Free University
- Boolean Algebras
- Representation theory of Boolean algebras
- Set-Theoretic Topology
- In introduction to Set-theoretic Topology
More Topology
The site Topology Atlas offers lots
of information about topological matters:
preprints, conference announcements, a bulletin board ...