Notes


Finitely Generated Abelian Groups (Roughly Sections 4 & 11) 
Sections 1, 2, & 5 - Simplicial Complexes and Homology Groups
   Example 1   Example 2   Example 3  
Section 3 - Abstract Simplicial Complexes
Section 6 - Surfaces  
Section 7 - Dimension Zero and Reduced Homology
Section 8 - Cones
Section 9 - Relative Homology and Excision
Skip Section 10.
Section 12 
Section 13
Chapter 2: 14-19
Skim Secion 20 on your own.
Section 21 Don't let this happen to you!
Section 22 





Online Course Starts Here ("Holomogy in the Time of COVID-19")

Monday, March 23 Example: Homology Groups of S2 x S3 x S7 x S7. Section 26: notes Section 26, Braid Lemma and application: notes video (works best in Chrome) webm video format Read over Sections 27 & 28 on your own.
Wednesday, March 25 Start Chapter 4. Section 29, Part I: notes video
Friday, March 27. Section 29, Part II: notes video Section 30, Part I: notes video

Monday, March 30. Section 30, Part II, Axiom 5: notes video a video b
Wednesday, April 1. Section 31, Axiom 6, Excision: notes video 1 video 2 video 3 Note: we skip Sections 32 & 33.
Friday, April 3. Continue studying the Excision lecture.

Monday, April 6. Section 34: notes video 1 video 2 Note: We skip Sections 35 & 36; skim Section 37 on your own.
Wednesday, April 8. The Hurewicz Homomorphism video 1 video 2
Friday, April 10. Section 38, CW Complexes. notes video

Monday, April 13. Section 39, Homology of CW Complexes. notes 1 video 1 notes 2 video 2 notes 3 [Optional Reading]
Wednesday, April 15. Section 40, Projective Spaces. notes video Lens. coming soon (optional)
Friday, April 17. Start Chapter 5, Cohomology. Section 41: The Hom Functor: notes video

Monday, April 20. Section 42: Simplicial Cohomology: notes 1 video 1 notes 2 video 2
Wednesday, April 22. Section 43: Relative Cohomology (skim) Sections 44-6: Cohomology Theory (skim)
Friday, April 24. Section 47: notes video

Monday, April 27. Section 48: notes video
Wednesday, April 29. Section 49: notes video example video 1 video 2
Friday, May 1. Section 73: notes video See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid_(mathematics) Paper I wrote that uses Cech thoery.

Final Exam Due: Sunday, May 31.


Bonus Lectures!!
Section 50, Tensor Products of Abelian Groups: notes video Section 10: notes video Section 51: notes video