PMATH 367 Set Theory & General Topology

Pure Mathematics (2009-2010)

Relations, functions, well-orderings, Schroder-Bernstein theorem, recursion, axiom of choice and equivalents, ordinals, cardinals, continuum hypothesis, singular and inaccessible cardinals. Topological spaces, bases and sub-bases, closure and interior, product spaces, quotient spaces, nets and filters. Hausdorff spaces, completely regular and normal spaces, Urysohn's lemma, Tietze extension theorum. Compactness, Tychonoff's theorum, Stone-Cech compactification. Connectedness, path connectedness, Function spaces.