Thomas Wanner
Department of Mathematical Sciences
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3F2
Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA

 

Topology Videos

Below you can find Youtube links for my topology lecture videos. The videos can be used both for the advanced undergraduate course Math 431, and for the graduate core course Math 631, even though the undergraduate course might not cover all topics, while the graduate course might cover more. The videos are based on my lecture notes, and the book section numbers refer to the book Topology by James Munkres (Second edition, Pearson Modern Classics, 2017).

Topic Book Sections
I. Topological Spaces
I.1 What is Topology?
I.2 Topological Spaces 12
I.3 Basis for a Topology 13
I.4 Topology via Order and Products 14, 15
I.5 The Subspace Topology 16
I.6 Closed Sets and Limit Points 17
I.7 Limits of Sequences and Separation Axioms 17
I.8 The Metric Topology 20
II. Continuity of Functions
II.1 Continuous Functions 18
II.2 Topology of Infinite Products 19
II.3 Continuity in Metric Spaces 20, 21
II.4 The Quotient Topology 22
III. Connectedness and Compactness
III.1 Connected Spaces 23
III.2 Connected Subspaces of the Real Line 24
III.3 Components and Local Connectedness 25
III.4 Compact Spaces 26, 27
III.5 Products of Compact Spaces 26, 37
III.6 Compactness in the Reals and Metric Spaces 27, 28
III.7 Local Compactness 29
IV. Countability and Separation Axioms
IV.1 The Countability Axioms 30
IV.2 More Separation Axioms 31, 32
IV.3 The Urysohn Lemma 33
IV.4 The Urysohn Metrization Theorem 34
IV.5 The Tietze Extension Theorem 35
V. Fundamental Group and Covering Spaces
V.1 Homotopy of Paths 51
V.2 Some Terminology from Group Theory 52
V.3 The Fundamental Group 52, 59, 60
V.4 Covering Spaces and Liftings 53, 54
V.5 A Sampling of Fundamental Groups 54, 59, 60
V.6 Higher Homotopy Groups and Then?