Syllabus

Polyhedral, simplicial and singular homology theory, Lefschetz fixed-point theorem, cohomology and products, Künneth and universal coefficient theorems, Poincare and Alexander duality theorems. Cofibrations, cofiber homotopy equivalence, fibrations, fiber homotopy equivalence, cofiber-fiber sequences, the cellular approximation theorem. Hopf invariant problem, CW and cellular homology, subdivision and excision, the generalized Jordan curve theorem, Borsuk-Ulam. . Classifying spaces Eilenberg-MacLane spaces, Meyer-Vietoris sequences, vector bundles characteristic classes.

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