Details of MA3201 (Spring 2023)

Level: 3 Type: Theory Credits: 4.0

Course CodeCourse NameInstructor(s)
MA3201 Topology Shibananda Biswas

Syllabus
Metric Spaces: Metric space topology, equivalent metrics, sequences, complete metric
spaces, limits and continuity, uniform continuity, extension of uniformly continuous functions.

Topological Spaces: Definition, examples, bases, sub-bases, product topology, subspace
topology, metric topology, quotient topology, second countability and separability.

Continuity: Continuous functions on topological spaces, homeomorphisms.

Connectedness: Definition, example, path connectedness and local connectedness.

Compactness: Definition, limit point compactness, sequential compactness, net and
directed set, local compactness, Tychonoff theorem, Stone-Weierstrass theorem, ArzelaAscoli theorem.

Separation Axioms: Hausdorff, regular and normal spaces; Urysohn lemma and Tietze
extension theorem; compactification.

Metrizability: Urysohn metrization theorem.

Prerequisite
Analysis III (MA3101)

References
1. Armstrong, M.A., Basic Topology, Springer-Verlag.

2. Dugundji, J., Topology, Allyn and Bacon Series in Advanced Mathematics, Allyn & Bacon.

3. Kelley, J.L., General Topology, Springer-Verlag.

4. Munkres, J.R., Topology (2nd Edition), Prentice-Hall.

5. Simmons, G.F., Introduction to Topology and Modern Analysis, Tata McGraw-Hill.

Course Credit Options

Sl. No.ProgrammeSemester NoCourse Choice
1 IP 2 Not Allowed
2 IP 4 Not Allowed
3 IP 6 Not Allowed
4 MP 2 Not Allowed
5 MP 4 Not Allowed
6 MR 2 Not Allowed
7 MR 4 Not Allowed
8 MS 10 Elective
9 MS 4 Not Allowed
10 MS 6 Core
11 MS 8 Elective
12 RS 1 Elective
13 RS 2 Elective