Dr. Sarah's Math 4710 Web Page - Fall 2001

  • Class Highlights-Day by Day
  • Dr. Sarah's Schedule
  • WebCT Includes bulletin board and grades
  • Proof-Writing Samples
  • Proof-Writing Checklist
  • Syllabus and Grading Policies
  • WebCT Test Questions
  • DUE/REVISION Dates

    Date     WORK DUE at the beginning of class or lab unless otherwise noted!
    Dec 8 - Sat
    Dec 5 - Wed
    1. Problem Set 10 Revisions due by 5pm
    2. WebCt Test 5 retakes due by 11:55pm

    Dec 4 - Tues
    • Organizational Plan of Talk
    • In my office or on reserve in the library under Greenwald - Math 1010 - Heart of Mathematics skim thru p. 288-397.
    • WebCT Test 5 on Heart of Math reading, quotient spaces, connected and compact spaces and classification of spaces.

    Nov 29 - Thur
    1. Abstract of Talk
    2. WebCT Test 4 retakes due by 11:55pm

    Nov 27 - Tues
    • Problem Set 8 revisions due by 5:15 pm

    Nov 20 - Tues
    • Problem Set 10 DUE Tuesday 11/20 at 5pm, Revisions DUE Wed Dec 5th
      Prove that If X is compact Hausdorff under both T and T', then T=T' or they are not comparable.
      Show that the union of two compact sets in a space X is compact in X.
      Show that the intersection of two compact sets in a Hausdorff space X is compact in X.
      Show that Hausdorff is required in the above statement, ie that the intersection of compact subspaces of a space X is not necessarily compact as follows:       Look at Y=[0,1] U [2,3] with the equivalence relation ~ on Y s.t.    t ~ t for all t,    t ~ t+2 for all t in [0,1),    t ~ t-2 for all t in [2,3)
            Show that Y/~ is not Hausdorff
            Show that [0,1] U [2,3) is compact in Y/~
            Show that [0,1) U[2,3] is compact in Y/~
            Show that the intersection of these two compact sets in Y/~ is not compact in Y/~

    Nov 16 - Fri
    • Problem Set 9 DUE Friday 11/16 at 5pm No revisions.
      Using ideas of connected spaces, show that no pair of the following is homeomorphic:   (0,1),   (0,1],   [0,1]
      Using ideas of connected spaces, show that   R^2 and R   are not homeomorphic
      Show why each of the following is or is not connected:   R_l,   R_zar=R_fc,   R^2_zar
  • Problem Set 8 DUE Friday 11/9, Revisions DUE Mon 11/26 by 6pm See hints (parts 1 and 2) on WebCT bulletin board
    Section 2.6 numbers 1, 2, 5, 9, 17b

  • WebCT test 4 Thur 11/8 - Retakes DUE Thur 11/29 at 11:55pm on all sections we have covered so far except 2.6

  • Preliminary Bibliography for final project DUE Tuesday 11/6

  • Problem Set 7 DUE Fri 10/26 See hints on WebCT bulletin board
    Section 2.1 numbers 6, 7, 9, and 19 parts c and d, and then prove part b.
    Section 2.2 numbers 2 and 4

  • Problem Set 6 DUE Wed 10/17 Revisions DUE Wed 10/31 See hints on WebCT bulletin board
    Prove that X is discrete iff every function f : X-->R is continuous, p. 57 #20,
    Prove or Disprove that the following are homeomorphic
    a) S^1 and {(x,y) | max(|x|,|y|) = 1}, both with the subspace topologies of R^2.
    b) [1,2) and {0}U(1,2) with the subspace topologies of R^2
    c) R with the standard topology and R_cf with the finite complement topology.

  • WebCT test 3 on 1.1-1.4 Thur 10/4, Retakes DUE Wed 10/17

  • Problem Set 5 DUE Wed 10/3, Revs DUE Tues 10/9
    p. 159 number 14, and
    Prove that X is Hausdorff iff Delta={(x,x) | x in X} is closed in XxX

  • Problem Set 4 DUE Wed 9/26
    Section 1.4 4,5, 12, 14, 17, 18 (informal justifications on the last 4)

  • WebCT test 2 on 1.1-1.3 Thur 9/20 (but meet in 105 first) RETAKES DUE Tuesday October 2

  • Problem Set 3 DUE Wednesday 9/19
    p. 24-26 numbers 5, 7, 17, 18, 20 and 21 (informal justifications on all but 5)

  • Project Topic DUE Tuesday 9/11

  • Problem Set 2 DUE Tuesday 9/4

  • WebCT quiz on Thursday 8/23 - study topology ad, syllabus, class notes, and the "orange poster" on my door - 326 Walker. Retakes DUE Sept 12.

  • Problem Set 1 DUE Tuesday 8/21