This book presents some basic
concepts and results from algebraic topology. Topics covered includes: Smooth
manifolds revisited, Stratifolds, Stratifolds with boundary: c-stratifolds,
The Mayer-Vietoris sequence and homology groups of spheres, Brouwer’s fixed
point theorem, separation and invariance of dimension, Integral homology and
the mapping degree, A comparison theorem for homology theories and CW-complexes,
Kunneth’s theorem, Singular cohomology and Poincare duality, Induced maps and
the cohomology axioms, The Chern classes, Pontrjagin classes and applications
to bordism, Constructions of stratifolds.
This
note explains the following topics: preliminaries, Different homology theories and their
interaction, Classifying spaces, An introduction to symplectic topology.
This note covers the following topics: Basics of Differentiable
Manifolds, Local structure of smooth maps, Transversality Theory,
IDifferential Forms and de Rham Theory, TIensors and some Riemannian
Geometry.
This note covers
the following topics: Smooth manifolds and smooth maps, Tangent spaces and differentials ,
Regular and singular values , Manifolds with boundary, Immersions
and embeddings , Degree mod 2 , Orientation of manifolds and
Applications of degree.