M.S. Comprehensive Examination Topics
Topology
2008
Topological Spaces and Continuous Functions
- Topology, open set, neighborhood, closed set
- Closure, interior, boundary, limit point, Hausdorff topology, separable
space
- Base, countable base, subspace topology, order topology, metric
topology, finite product topology
- Continuous mapping, open map, closed, map, quotient topology,
identification map
Connectedness
- Connected space, continuous image of a connected space, path connected
space, continuous image of a path connected space
- Product of two path connected spaces, product of two connected spaces
- Locally connected space, locally path connected space, component, path
component
Compactness
- Compact spaces, tube lemma, finite intersection property, closed and
bounded subsets of Euclidean spaces, Cantor sets
- Limit point compactness, Lebesgue number of a covering, local
compactness, one-point compactification
- Continuous image of a compact space, the product of two compact spaces,
uniform continuity and compactness
References:
Topology, Sheldon Davis, McGraw-Hill.
Topology: A First Course, James R. Munkres, Prentice-Hall.
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