Exam syllabus/curriculum

This is the planned exam syllabus.  Dates (day/month) will show when the material is first discussed.

  • Section 1: Fundamental Concepts (20/8)
  • Section 2: Functions (21/8)
  • Section 3: Relations (up to Order Relations)
  • Section 5. Cartesian Products (21/8)
  • Section 6: Finite Sets (21/8)
  • Section 7: Countable and Uncountable Sets (18/9)
  • Section 12: Topological Spaces (27/8)
  • Section 13: Basis for a Topology (27/8)
  • Section 15: The Product Topology on X x Y (3/9)
  • Section 16: The Subspace Topology (3/9)
  • Section 17: Closed Sets and Limit Points (4/9)
  • Section 18: Continuous Functions (10/9)
  • Section 19: The Product Topology (18/9)
  • Section 20: The Metric Topology (24/9)
  • Section 21: The Metric Topology (continued)
  • Section 22: The Quotient Topology
  • Section 23: Connected Spaces
  • Section 24: Connected Subspaces of the Real Line
  • Section 25: Components and Local Connectedness
  • Section 26: Compact Spaces
  • Section 27: Compact Subspaces of the Real Line
  • Section 28: Limit Point Compactness
  • Section 29: Local Compactness
  • Section 30: The Countability Axioms
  • Section 31: The Separation Axioms
  • Section 32: Normal Spaces
  • Section 33: The Urysohn Lemma
  • Section 34: The Urysohn Metrization Theorem
  • Section 35: The Tietze Extension Theorem (without proof)
  • Section 36: Embeddings of Manifolds
  • Section 37: The Tychonoff Theorem (without proof)
  • Section 43: Complete Metric Spaces
  • Section 45: Compactness in Metric Spaces
  • Section 46: Pointwise and Compact Convergence
  • Section 51: Homotopy of Paths
  • Section 52: The Fundamental Group
  • Section 53: Covering Spaces
  • Section 54: The Fundamental Group of the Circle
  • Section 55: Retractions and Fixed Points
  • Section 56: The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
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