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Geometric Topology
R. Levi
Last updated 21/2/00
Contents
Introduction
Motivating Examples
Surfaces
Topological Groups
Constructing new spaces out of old - Connected Sums
Identification Spaces
Partitions and Identification Spaces.
Examples 1: Glueing and Pasting.
Examples 2: Group Actions and Orbit Spaces.
Homotopy and Homotopy Type
Homotopy of Maps
Homotopy Equivalence - Homotopy Type
The fundamental group
Some First Applications
Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem
The Degree of a self map of
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1
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Calculation of the Fundamental Group
The Circle
Orbit Spaces
The Van Kampen Theorem
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Ran Levi
2000-03-13