MATH 429 INTRODUCTION TO TOPOLOGY (Metric spaces, topological spaces, separation axioms, product spaces, identificaiton spaces, compactness, connectedness, fundamental group)

Instructor: Anton Petrunin

Class: MWF 10:10--11:00, Room 103 Willard

Office hours: M 13:25--14:15, McAlister 333

Chapters: 1--19

Midterms: Feb 10, March 23, April 27 (NO FINAL)

HWA: usually assigned on Mon and usually is due next Mon.

Quizzes: once a week, usually (not always!) on Wed, based on previous HWA.

Extra credit problems: it is hard and interesting problems, the solutions should be presents orally. Only the first solution will be graded. It might improve your score, but should be used for fun. (You can use any help from anybody but me, I will check that you understand the solution.)

Each HWA = 8,

Each Quiz = 8,

Each Midterm = 80,

Each extra credit problem = 16.

90% guarantees "A".

80% guarantees "B".

70% guarantees "C".

55% guarantees "D".

The lowest three percentage points of a range will be minus and the highest three percentage points of a range will be plus.

All Penn State Policies regarding ethics and honorable behavior apply to this course.