MATH 341 - Geometric Topology

Planned Offering: Fall 2016 and alternate years
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: MATH 311 or as co-requisite with instructor consent. A study of the shape of space focusing on characteristics not detected by geometry alone. Topics are approached pragmatically and include point set topology of Euclidean space, map-coloring problems, knots, the shape of the universe, surfaces, graphs and trees, the fundamental group, the Jordan Curve Theorem, and homology.