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Covering spaces and fundamental groups are introduced after homology, another novelty. Higher dimensions are encountered only towards the end of the book, but by the time we get there, we already know the general idea behind all the concepts. Give the definitions of simplicial complexes and their homology groups and a geometric understanding of what these groups measure The identification diagrams are not quotients of a delta complex, but rather delta complex structures on the quotient space for the square itself. Delta complexes don't behave particularly well under taking quotients, which is what I believe you are observing.

Soc. 58 (1998), 633-655. pdf file There is also a short Addendum written in 2018 clarifying the proof of Proposition 6.2. This book is seen as the gold standard for a first book on algebraic topology, and I can see why. It has a huge amount of interesting examples, exercises, and pictures, and covers a wide range of topics. The prose, while annoyingly informal at times, helps give an intuition for how mathematicians really think about this stuff, beyond the formalities. There's a crazy amount of abstract algebra involved in this subject (an introduction to which you'll find after lecture 25 in here) so I'd be equally worried about that if I didn't know much algebra. Register or audit an undergraduate intro level algebraic topology class for next semester? (at a level lower than this course.)

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expository talk at the 2004 Cornell Topology Festival. Also available is a pdf file of the transparencies for the talk itself. Nathalie Wahl). Duke Math. J. 155 (2010), 205-269. Here is a pdf file of the version from October 2009 Content: Algebraic topology is concerned with the construction of algebraic invariants (usually groups) associated to topological spaces which serve to distinguish between them. Most of these invariants are ``homotopy'' invariants. In essence, this means that they do not change under continuous deformation of the space and homotopy is a precise way of formulating the idea of continuous deformation. This module will concentrate on constructing the most basic family of such invariants, homology groups, and the applications of these homology groups. Assembling homology classes in automorphism groups of free groups" (with Jim Conant, Martin Kassabov, and Karen Vogtmann). Commentarii Math. Helv. 91 (2016), 751-806. pdf file.

I think the organization of the material could be improved. I would move most of chapter 0 to an appendix, as many the unsuspecting undergrad has tried to read that whole chapter before the rest of the book (which I would NOT advise, read it as you need it as much of the motivation comes later). I would also move the category theory material to an appendix. diffeomorphism groups of smooth manifolds. A full history would of course be impossible in an hour talk. Chapter 1 of Hatcher corresponds to chapter 9 of Munkres. These topology video lectures (syllabus here) do chapters 2, 3 & 4 (topological space in terms of open sets, relating this to neighbourhoods, closed sets, limit points, interior, exterior, closure, boundary, denseness, base, subbase, constructions [subspace, product space, quotient space], continuity, connectedness, compactness, metric spaces, countability & separation) of Munkres before going on to do 9 straight away so you could take this as a guide to what you need to know from Munkres before doing Hatcher, however if you actually look at the subject you'll see chapter 4 of Munkres (questions of countability, separability, regularity & normality of spaces etc...) don't really appear in Hatcher apart from things on Hausdorff spaces which appear only as part of some exercises or in a few concepts tied up with manifolds (in other words, these concepts may be being implicitly assumed). Thus basing our judgement off of this we see that the first chapter of Naber is sufficient on these grounds... However you'd need the first 4 chapters of Lee's book to get this material in, & then skip to chapter 7 (with 5 & 6 of Lee relating to chapter 2 of Hatcher).All in all great book, still rated 5 stars, and kudos to Hatcher for making it free online. I would definitely pair it with something that shows more details / is more algebraically focused if it is your first time learning the material, however. Aims: To introduce homology groups for simplicial complexes; to extend these to the singular homology groups of topological spaces; to prove the topological and homotopy invariance of homology; to give applications to some classical topological problems. corrections as they come to light. I extend my sincere thanks to all the people who have sent me corrections. The book does a great job, going from the known to the unknown: in the first chapter, winding number is introduced using path integrals. Then winding number is explored in a lot more detail, and its connection to homotopy is discussed, without even mentioning fundamental groups. Then a number of results like the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Borsuk Ulam and Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem are proved using winding numbers. notice. The electronic version has narrower margins than the print version for a better reading experience on portable electronic devices. To restore the wider margins for printing a paper copy you can print at 85-90% of full size.

how the Madsen-Weiss theorem follows similarly, as do a couple analogs in dimension three involving handlebodies.Tethers and homology stability for surfaces" (with Karen Vogtmann). Alg. & Geom. Topology 17 (2017), 1871-1916. pdf file. The images here should be understood as being in the quotient space. If I got the coordinates and orientations correct, then the boundaries of each of these simplices should be what the diagrams would lead you to expect. As others have said, the book is quite hand wavy. I understand why you wouldn't want to show all the details when you're trying to squeeze *so much stuff* in but PLEASE can I have just a few more details. I don't see why I should not recommend my own book Topology and Groupoids (T&G) as a text on general topology from a geometric viewpoint and on 1-dimensional homotopy theory from the modern view of groupoids. This allows for a form of the van Kampen theorem with many base points, chosen according to the geometry of the situation, from which one can deduce the fundamental group of the circle, a gap in traditional accounts; also I feel it makes the theory of covering spaces easier to follow since a covering map of spaces is modelled by a covering morphism of groupoids. Also useful is the notion of fibration of groupoids. A further bonus is that there is a theorem on the fundamental groupoid of an orbit space by a discontinuous action of a group, not to be found in any other text, except a 2016 Bourbaki volume in French on "Topologie Algebrique": and that gives no example applications.

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