Lecture notes

A pdf file with all notes and a LaTex source file are available here.

I may make some minor changes to these notes during the semester, which can affect numbering of theorems, exercises etc. The table below and the course schedule page for each week will include links to the up-to-date versions of each chapter.


1. Some Motivation complete notes blank notes
2. Categories and Functors complete notes blank notes
3. The Fundamental Group complete notes blank notes
4. Dependence on the Basepoint complete notes blank notes
5. First computations complete notes blank notes
6. Some applications complete notes blank notes
7. Higher Homotopy Groups complete notes blank notes
8. Homotopy Invariance complete notes blank notes
9. The Product Formula complete notes blank notes
10. Pushouts and van Kampen’s Theorem complete notes blank notes
11. Proof of van Kampen’s Theorem complete notes blank notes
12. CW complexes complete notes blank notes
13. Homotopy Extension Property complete notes blank notes
14. Presentations of Groups complete notes blank notes
15. Fundamental Group and 2-Cells complete notes blank notes
16. Cellular Approximation Theorem complete notes blank notes
17. Covering Spaces complete notes blank notes
18. Coverings and the Fundamental Group complete notes blank notes
19. Classification of Coverings complete notes blank notes
20. From Subgroups to Coverings complete notes blank notes
21. Equivalences of categories complete notes blank notes
22. Coverings and group actions complete notes blank notes
23. Deck transformations complete notes blank notes