Algebraic Topology PMA 333

This page is about the course as it was taught by Neil Strickland several years ago. See the SoMaS website for up to date information about the current lecturer and syllabus.

This course is taught by Neil Strickland. My office is J10 in the Hicks Building, and my internal phone number is 23852. The best way to reach me outside of lectures is by email: N.P.Strickland@sheffield.ac.uk.

Lectures are at 11:10 on Tuesdays in Hicks lecture room 6, and at 11:10 on Fridays in Hicks lecture room 9. Problem sheets and solutions will appear on this web page in due course.

• Notes

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Pictures and animated diagrams (generated by Mathematica)

• The plane
• The sphere
• The torus
• The Möbius strip
• The projective plane
• Curves in a plane region
• Curves in the complement of a circle
• Path lifting
• Odds and ends

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Problem sets and solutions

• Problem set 1
• Problem set 2
• Problem set 3
• Problem set 4
• Problem set 5
• Problem set 6
• Problem set 7

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About the exam

• Guidance notes for the exam.
• A sample exam and solutions
• The 2001 exam and solutions.
• A collection of questions taken from past papers (and edited to make them compatible with this year's course) and solutions.

You are warned that the sample exam and questions from past papers have not been thoroughly debugged.