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Algebraic Topology Books

There are many online resources where you can find free Algebraic Topology books to download in PDF format, including online textbooks, ebooks, lecture notes, and more, covering basic, beginner, and advanced concepts for those looking for an introduction to the subject or a deeper understanding of it.

Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology

This note explains the following topics: Chain Complexes,Homology, and Cohomology, Homological Algebra, Products, Fiber Bundles, Homology with Local Coefficients, Fibrations, Cofibrations and Homotopy Groups, Obstruction Theory and Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces, Bordism, Spectra, and Generalized Homology, Spectral Sequences.

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Lectures on Algebraic Topology by Haynes Miller

This PDF Lectures covers the following topics related to Algebraic Topology : Singular homology, Introduction: singular simplices and chains, Homology, Categories, functors, and natural transformations, Basic homotopy theory, The homotopy theory of CW complexes, Vector bundles and principal bundles, Spectral sequences and Serre classes, Characteristic classes, Steenrod operations, and cobordism.

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Algebraic Topology A Comprehensive Introduction

This book explains the following topics: Introduction, Fundamental group, Classification of compact surfaces, Covering spaces, Homology, Basics of Cohomology, Cup Product in Cohomology, Poincaré Duality, Basics of Homotopy Theory, Spectral Sequences. Applications, Fiber bundles, Classifying spaces, Applications, Vector Bundles, Characteristic classes, Cobordism, Applications.

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Algebraic Topology I Iv.5 Stefan Friedl

The contents of this book include: Topological spaces, General topology: some delicate bits, Topological manifolds and manifolds, Categories, functors and natural transformations, Covering spaces and manifolds, Homotopy equivalent topological spaces, Differential topology, Basics of group theory, The basic Seifert-van Kampen Theorem , Presentations of groups and amalgamated products, The general Seifert-van Kampen Theorem , Cones, suspensions, cylinders, Limits, etc .

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Algebraic Topology by NPTEL

This is a basic note in algebraic topology, it introduce the notion of fundamental groups, covering spaces, methods for computing fundamental groups using Seifert Van Kampen theorem and some applications such as the Brouwer’s fixed point theorem, Borsuk Ulam theorem, fundamental theorem of algebra.

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Notes On The Course Algebraic Topology

This note covers the following topics: Important examples of topological spaces, Constructions, Homotopy and homotopy equivalence, CW -complexes and homotopy, Fundamental group, Covering spaces, Higher homotopy groups, Fiber bundles, Suspension Theorem and Whitehead product, Homotopy groups of CW -complexes, Homology groups, Homology groups of CW -complexes, Homology with coefficients and cohomology groups, Cap product and the Poincare duality, Elementary obstruction theory.

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Algebraic Topology by Andreas Kriegl

This note explains the following topics: Building blocks and homeomorphy, Homotopy, Simplicial Complexes,CW-Spaces, Fundamental Group , Coverings, Simplicial Homology and Singular Homology.

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Topics in Algebraic Topology The Sullivan Conjecture

The goal of this note is to describe some of the tools which enter into the proof of Sullivan's conjecture. Topics covered includes: Steenrod operations, The Adem relations, Admissible monomials, Free unstable modules,  A theorem of Gabriel-Kuhn-Popesco, Injectivity of the cohomology of BV, Generating analytic functors, Tensor products and algebras, Free unstable algebras, The dual Steenrod algebra, The Frobenius, Finiteness conditions, Injectivity of tensor products, Lannes T-functor, The T-functor and unstable algebras, Free E-infinity algebras, A pushout square, The Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequence, Operations on E-infinity algebras, The Sullivan conjecture.

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Introduction To Algebraic Topology And Algebraic Geometry

This note provides an introduction to algebraic geometry for students with an education in theoretical physics, to help them to master the basic algebraic geometric tools necessary for doing research in algebraically integrable systems and in the geometry of quantum eld theory and string theory. Covered topics are: Algebraic Topology, Singular homology theory, Introduction to sheaves and their cohomology, Introduction to algebraic geometry, Complex manifolds and vector bundles, Algebraic curves.

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Algebraic Topology by Michael Starbird

Much of topology is aimed at exploring abstract versions of geometrical objects in our world. The concept of geometrical abstraction dates back at least to the time of Euclid. All of the objects that we will study in this note will be subsets of the Euclidean spaces. Topics covered includes: 2-manifolds, Fundamental group and covering spaces, Homology, Point-Set Topology, Group Theory, Graph Theory and The Jordan Curve Theorem.

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Algebraic Topology by Cornell University

This note covers the following topics: moduli space of flat symplectic surface bundles, Cohomology of the Classifying Spaces of Projective Unitary Groups, covering type of a space, A May-type spectral sequence for higher topological Hochschild homology, topological Hochschild homology of the K(1)-local sphere, Quasi-Elliptic Cohomology and its Power Operations, Local and global coincidence homology classes, Tangent categories of algebras over operads, Automorphisms of the little disks operad with p-torsion coefficients.

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More Concise Algebraic Topology Localization, completion, and model categories

This book explains the following topics: the fundamental group, covering spaces, ordinary homology and cohomology in its singular, cellular, axiomatic, and represented versions, higher homotopy groups and the Hurewicz theorem, basic homotopy theory including fibrations and cofibrations, Poincare duality for manifolds and manifolds with boundary.

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Introduction To Algebraic Topology

These notes provides a brief overview of basic topics in a usual introductory course of algebraic topology. Topics covered includes:  Basic notions and constructions, CW-complexes, Simplicial and singular homology, Homology of CW-complexes and applications, Singular cohomology, homological algebra, Products in cohomology, Vector bundles and Thom isomorphism, Poincar´e duality, Homotopy groups, Fundamental group, Homotopy and CW-complexes, Homotopy excision and Hurewitz theorem.

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Algebraic Topology Class Notes (PDF 119P)

This book covers the following topics: The Mayer-Vietoris Sequence in Homology, CW Complexes, Cellular Homology,Cohomology ring, Homology with Coefficient, Lefschetz Fixed Point theorem, Cohomology, Axioms for Unreduced Cohomology, Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms, Construction of a Cohomology theory, Proof of the UCT in Cohomology, Properties of Ext(A;G).

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Algebraic Topology lecture notes (PDF 24P)

This note covers the following topics: The Fundamental Group, Covering Projections, Running Around in Circles, The Homology Axioms, Immediate Consequences of the Homology Axioms, Reduced Homology Groups, Degrees of Spherical Maps again, Constructing Singular Homology Theory.

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Lecture Notes in Algebraic Topology (PDF 392P)

This note covers the following topics: Chain Complexes, Homology, and Cohomology, Homological algebra, Products, Fiber Bundles, Homology with Local Coefficient, Fibrations, Cofibrations and Homotopy Groups, Obstruction Theory and Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces, Bordism, Spectra, and Generalized Homology and Spectral Sequences.

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Algebraic Topology Hatcher

This book explains the following topics: Some Underlying Geometric Notions, The Fundamental Group, Homology, Cohomology and Homotopy Theory.

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A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology (J. P. May)

This book explains the following topics: The fundamental group and some of its applications, Categorical language and the van Kampen theorem, Covering spaces, Graphs, Compactly generated spaces, Cofibrations, Fibrations, Based cofiber and fiber sequences, Higher homotopy groups, CW complexes, The homotopy excision and suspension theorems, Axiomatic and cellular homology theorems, Hurewicz and uniqueness theorems, Singular homology theory, An introduction to K theory.

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Vector Bundles K Theory

This note covers the following topics: Vector Bundles, Classifying Vector Bundles, Bott Periodicity, K Theory, Characteristic Classes, Stiefel-Whitney and Chern Classes, Euler and Pontryagin Classes, The J Homomorphism.

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Spectral Sequences in Algebraic Topology

This note explains the following topics: Introduction to the Serre spectral sequence, with a number of applications, mostly fairly standard, The Adams spectral sequence, Eilenberg-Moore spectral sequences.

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The K book An introduction to algebraic K theory

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Cohomology,Connections, Curvature and Characteristic Classes

This note explains the following topics: Cohomology, The Mayer Vietoris Sequence, Compactly Supported Cohomology and Poincare Duality, The Kunneth Formula for deRham Cohomology, Leray-Hirsch Theorem, Morse Theory, The complex projective space.

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Introduction to Characteristic Classes and Index Theory

This note explains Characteristic Classes and Index Theory.

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Abstract group theory and topology articles

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Algebraic Topology Notes (Moller J.M)

This note covers the following topics related to Algebraic Topology: Abstract homotopy theory, Classification of covering maps, Singular homology, Construction and deconstruction of spaces, Applications of singular homology and Singular cohomology.

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Algebraic Topology (Wilkins D.R)

This note covers the following topics related to Algebraic Topology: Topological Spaces, Homotopies and the Fundamental Group, Covering Maps and the Monodromy Theorem, Covering Maps and Discontinous Group Actions, Simplicial Complexes Simplicial Homology Groups, Homology Calculations , Modules, Introduction to Homological Algebra and Exact Sequences of Homology Groups.

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