CHAPTERONETwo-DimensionalManifolds
1 Introduction
2 Definitionandexamplesofn-manifolds
3 Orientablevs.nonorientablemanifolds
4 Examplesofcompact,connected2-manifolds
5 Statementoftheclassificationtheoremforcompactsurfaces
6 Triangulationsofcompactsurfaces
7 ProofofTheorem5.1
8 TheEulercharacteristicofasurface
9 Manifoldswithboundary
10 Theclassificationofcompact,connected2-manifoldswithboundary
11 TheEulercharacteristicofaborderedsurface
12 ModelsofcompactborderedsurfacesinEuclidean3-space
13 Remarksonnoncompactsurfaces
CHAPTERTWOTheFundamentalGroup
1 Introduction
2 Basicnotationandterminology
3 Definitionofthefundamentalgroupofaspace
4 Theeffectofacontinuousmai)pingonthefundamentalgroup
5 Thefundamentalgroupofacircleisinfinitecyclic
6 Application:TheBrouwerfixed-pointtheoremilldimension2
7 Thefundamentalgroupofaproductspace
8 Homotopytypeandhomotopyequivalenceofspaces
CHAPTERTHREEFreeGroupsandFreeProductsofGroups
1 Introduction
2 Theweakproductofabeliangroups
3 Freeabeliangroups
4 Freeproductsofgroups
5 Freegroups
6 Thepresentationofgroupsbygeneratorsandrelations
7 Universalmappingproblems
CHAPTERFOURScifertandVanKampenTheoremontheFundamentalGroupoftheUnionofTwoSpaces.Applic
ations
1 Introduction
2 StatementandproofofthetheoremofSeifertandVanKampen
3 FirstapplicationofTheorem2.1
4 SecondapplicationofTheorem2.1
5 Structureofthefundamentalgroupofacompactsurface
6 Applicationtoknottheory
CHAPTERFIVECoveringSpaces
1 Introduction
2 Definitionandsomeexamplesofcoveringspaces
3 Liftingofpathstoacoveringspace
4 Thefundamentalgroupofacoveringspace
5 Liftingofarbitrarymapstoacoveringspace
6 Homomorphismsandautomorphismsofcoveringspaces
7 Theactionofthegroupπ(X,x)onthesetp-(x)
8 Regularcoveringspacesandquotientspaces
9 Application:TheBorsuk-Ulamtheoremforthe2-sphere
10 Theexistencetheoremforcoveringspaces
11 Theinducedcoveringspaceoverasubspace
12 Pointsettopologyofcoveringspaces
CHAPTERSIXTheFundamentalGroupandCoveringSpacesofaGraph.ApplicationstoGroupTheory
1 Introduction
2 Definitionandexamples
3 Basicpropertiesofgraphs
4 Trees
5 Thefundamentalgroupofagraph
6 TheEulercharacteristicofafinitegraph
7 Coveringspacesofagraph
8 Generatorsforasubgroupoffreegroup
CHAPTERSEVENTheFundamentalGroupofHigherDimensionalSpaces
1 Introduction
2 Adjunctionof2-cellstoaspace
3 Adjunctionofhigherdimensionalcellstoaspace
4 CW-complexes
5 TheKuroshsubgrouptheorem
6 GrushkosTheorem
CHAPTEREIGHTEpilogue
APPENDIXATheQuotientSpaceorIdentificationSpaceTopology
1 Definitionsandbasicproperties
2 Ageneralizationofthequotientspacetopology
3 Quotientspacesandproductspaces
4 Subspaceofaquotientspacevs.quotientspaceofasubspace
5 ConditionsforaquotientspacetobeaHausdorffspace
APPENDIXBPermutationGroupsorTransformationGroups
1 Basicdefinitions
2 HomogeneousG-spaces
Index