ALGEBRAIC TOPOLOGY I.
INSTRUCTOR: Laurentiu Maxim.
office: 713 Van Vleck
e-mail: maxim@math.wisc.edu
office hours:TBA
CLASS SCHEDULE: MWF 8:50-9:40, Room VAN VLECK B203.
CLASS HOMEPAGE:
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~maxim/753f10.html
DESCRIPTION: Higher homotopy groups, fibrations, spectral sequences, bundle theory, classifying spaces,
vector bundles, characteristic classes, applications and calculations.
READING SOURCES:
- Allen Hatcher: Algebraic Topology, available here.
- Allen Hatcher: Spectral Sequences in Algebraic Topology, available
here.
- James Davis, Paul Kirk: Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology
- John Milnor, Jim Stasheff: Characteristic Classes
GRADE: based on participation in class.