Lecturer

Emmanuel Kowalski

Coordinator

Francesco Naccarato

Lectures (English)

Mondays, 9 to 10 in HG F.3
Fridays, 8 to 10 in HG G 5.

Exercise classes (English and German): Mondays, 10:00 to 12:00.

Semesterpräsenz: Wednesdays, 16.15 to 18 in HG E1.2
These are office hours for the students to ask questions about the lectures and exercises.

Content

Introduction to topology (foundations, examples, fundamental theorems and introduction to the fundamental group and covering theory).

Quizzes

Roughly every two weeks, in the first part of the exercise classes, there will be a multiple choice quiz. Depending on performance over all quizzes, students may get a 0.25 bonus on the final grade.
For students unable to attend the exercise classes, we will publish here the quiz around 10 AM. Please submit your answers to your respective TA by email no later than 2 PM. If you are not registered for an exercise class, you can submit to the course coordinator.

Here is the April 15 quiz.

Here is the April 29 quiz.

Here is the May 13 quiz.

Here is the May 27 quiz.

Exercises

The exercise sheets will be posted on the homepage on Wednesday, starting with the first week of lectures. The solutions are posted usually on Thursday after the due date.

Please submit your solutions on SAMup by the following Wednesday.

Summary of the lectures

We indicate here the topics discussed in each lecture, with references to the literature where applicable, and with links to the lecture notes.
The video recordings of the lectures are available on the ETH Video portal.

Übungsgruppen

Literature

• "Notes on Introductory Point-Set Topology" by Allen Hatcher.
• "Algebraic Topology" by Allen Hatcher.
• "General Topology", Chapters 1 to 4 and Chapters 5 to 10 by N. Bourbaki (for reference purposes).