TIME and ROOM: MWF 11:00 - 11:50, 1109 North Hall

INSTRUCTOR: Michael Crandall, 6716 South Hall, crandall@math.ucsb.edu

OFFICE HOURS: MWF 1:35 - 2:25

TA: Ryan Blair, South Hall 6432 N, rcblair@math.ucsb.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Thursday 1 - 3 pm and MathLab Tuesday 5 - 7 pm

TEXT: Introduction to Topology, 2nd edition, by T. Gamelin and R. Greene

COURSE WEB PAGE: http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~crandall/math145

QUIZZES: Announced and/or unannounced quizzes will can occur at any time, but Wednesday is the most likely day.

HOMEWORK: Homework is assigned here: Homework and Reading Assignments. It is due when stated, typically Wednesday, in lecture. Check the assignment regularly - on rare occasions something might be added to an initial assignment. Also, there will be two types of problems listed: "turn in" and "don't turn in". Turn in the ones indicated. There won't be many of these, and EXPOSITION will count on the graded problems, which will be a selection from the turn in problems. See the link above for some information about the meaning of "exposition". The problems you don't have to turn in are still important. It will be assumed that you have done them and some of them - or variants - will turn up on quizzes and exams.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Look here for announcements: Events and such

GRADING: Your course score will be computed from: Homework 10%, Quizzes + Midterm 35%, Final 55%. Each component of the course score will be computed as (your score/ normalizing score)*100, yielding your normalized score. I will choose the normalizing score after the fact, but it will likely be less than the "best score by anyone" and it won't be more than that. Thus those with the top raw score may well have a normalized score of over 100. Roughly speaking, A-, A, A+ will correspond to an overall normalized score in the range 87 - 100+, B's to the range 74-86, C's (including C-) to the range 60-73, and we won't detail the rest. In addition, if your total course score indicates a lower grade than your performance on the final indicates, I may well give you a higher grade than your total course score indicates. This grade may lie anywhere between your final exam grade and your total course grade. I guarantee an A to the three top grades on the Final.

ABSENCES: If you miss a quiz, homework or the midterm for valid reasons (these are pretty much limited to the death of an immediate family member or illness as certified by a note from a medical professional), your grade will be based on the rest of your record. If you miss a quiz, homework or exam for any other reason, you will be given a grade of zero on the missed item. There will not be a make up midterm.

HOMEWORK: Late homeworks will not be accepted. Write clearly on one side only of 8.5 by 11 inch paper, put your name and the time of your section on every page. STAPLE the pages. Do not use paper ripped from a spiral binder. Nonconforming homeworks will not be graded. The point is to not waste the time of whoever reads them - who has only enough time to grade a very few problems - on managing a mess of loose pages, etc., rather than on giving you useful feedback.

EXAMS: Exams will be closed book. The final will be comprehensive.

Handout notes for this class: Handout notes.

A place to look up math stuff: Mathworld. The Wikipedia also has a lot of relevant mathematical entries. Search for "topology" and "metric space" on Wikipedia, for example. We will study mostly topics which are listed under "some theorems in general topology" under topology.

Most importantly, Math Jokes: Ha, ha, -- :)