MA605 - PhD Topology 1 (Odd Sem 2025-26)



Spivak front cover Instructor: Chitrabhanu Chaudhuri
(office M-227, email: chitrabhanu [at] niser [dot] ac [dot] in)

Lectures: Tue 15:30 - 17:00, Thu, Fri 9:00 - 10:30 in M1 SMS.

Office hours: By appointment.

Academic Calendar Course Resources
Content: Topological spaces, Continuous maps between topological spaces, product topology, Quotient spaces, Connectedness, Compactness, Path connected spaces, separation axioms, Tychonov spaces, Urysohn's lemma and metrization theorem. Differentiable functions on \(\mathbb{R}^n\), Jacobian criteria, Taylor's theorem, Inverse function theorem, Implicit function theorem, Maxima-minima, Lagrange multiplier.

Texts:
  • James R. Munkres, "Topology", Pearson, 2nd edition, 2005.
  • Michael Spivak, “Calculus on Manifolds”, Springer Verlag, 2nd edition, 2013.
  • James R. Munkres, "Analysis on Manifolds", CRC Press, Reprint 2022.
  • R. Gunning, "Introduction to Functions of Several Real Variables", Course Notes.
References:
  • Robert André, "Point-Set Topology with Topics: Basic General Topology for Graduate Studies", World Scientific Publishing, 2024.
  • Kelley, John L., “General Topology”, Grad. Texts in Math., No. 27, Springer-Verlag, 1975.
  • James Dugundji, "Topology", Allyn and Bacon Series in Advanced Mathematics, Allyn and Bacon, 1978.
  • Stephen Willard, "General topology", Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. 1970.
  • Steen and Seebach, "Counterexamples in topology", Second edition, Dover Publications, 1995.
  • B. B. Hubbard, J. H. Hubbard, "Vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms" Prentice Hall, 1999.
  • Theodore Shifrin, "Multivariable Mathematics: Linear Algebra, Multivariable Calculus, and Manifolds", Wiley, 2004.
Other resources: Lectures by Theodore Shifrin

Evaluation: Problem sets 30%, Midsem 30%, Final 40%.
Exams: To be announced later.

Material covered:
  • Week 1: Differentiation, Partial and Directional derivatives, Jacobian matrix. (ps1, notes)
  • Week 2: Chain rule, higher derivatives. (ps2, notes)
  • Week 3: Inverse and implicit function theorems and applications. (ps3, notes)
  • Week 4: Riemann Integral. (ps4, notes)
  • Week 5: Change of Variables and Sard's theorem. (ps5, notes)
  • Week 6: Differential Forms. (ps6, notes)
  • Week 7: Stokes' theorem and applications. (ps7, notes)