CZES KOSNIOWSKI A FIRST COURSE IN algebraic topology Czes Kosniowski is Lecturer in Mathematies The University of Newcastle upon Tyne CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRE! CAMBRIDGE LONDON NEW YORK NEW ROCHELLI MELBOURNE SYDNEYPublished by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridee CB2 TRP 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022, USA 296 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne 4206, Australia © Cambridge University Press 19K0. First published 1980 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Morrison & Gibb [td .}ondon and Pdinbat ph: British Library Catalowuiny, in Publication Data Kosniowski, C705 A first couse nn alpebrite topelops, 1. Alvebraic topolory 1 Title S14'.2 QAGL2 [416K ISBN 0521 231958 7 hatd covers ISBN 0.521 29864 4 paperback13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 CONTENTS Preface Sets and groups Background: metric spaces ‘Topological spaces Continuous functions Induced topology Quotient topology (and groups acting on spaces) Product spaces Compact spaces Hausdorff spaces Connected spaces The pancake problems Manifolds and surfaces Paths and path connected spaces 12A The Jordan curve theorem Homotopy of continuous mappings ‘Multiplication’ of paths The fundamental group The fundamental group of a circle Covering spaces ‘The fundamental group of a covering space ‘The fundamental group of an orbit space The Borsuk-Ulam and ham-sandwich theorems More on covering spaces: ing theorems More on covering spaces: existence theorems The Seifert-Van Kampen theorem: |] Generators The Seifert-Van Kampen theorem: I] Relations The Seifert-Van Kampen theorem: II] Calculations The fundamental group of a surface Knots: | Background and torus knots Knots: [1 Tame knots 28A Table of knots 92 100 110 118 124 135 143 151 154 157 162 170 176 187 194 202 209 ate £