Math 970 Topology Home Page

Math 970 Topology Home Page Mark Brittenham

This page is devoted to materials and links specific to Mark Brittenham's Math 970 class for Spring, 2001. There are of course alot of textbooks on topology out there, but the page I knew of that listed them doesn't exist anymore. On the other hand, thanks largely to Mel Thornton, I now own most of them, so you can stop by my office and look them over, if you want....

The Topology Atlas is a huge database of (mostly research-level) information on topology. It includes a page of lecture notes in topology, for example.

There is a fairly wide ranging discussion of General Topology (i.e., point-set topology), which is part of a larger group of pages on the various divisions of mathematics.

More generally, there is the rather entertaining Interactive Mathematics Miscellany page. My favorite little tidbit so far has been "[By the extreme value theorem,] for any object there is a distance at which it looks its best." (It took me a little while to figure out why that was actually true.)