Assignments from March and April, and all extra credit problems, may be found here.

Assignments for Math 534, January and February

First homework, due January 22

Page 10-11,   exercises 1 (c) (d) (e),   2 (h) (i),   6,   9 (b) (c) (d)
Note: For exercise 6, all you need to do is write out the proof that A = B implies A^c = B^c in a natural way. You may use either the book notation or the {}^c notation.

Second homework, due January 26

Third homework, due February 2

Fourth homework, due February 5

Fifth homework, due February 9

Sixth homework, due Wednesday, February 14

Seventh homework, due Monday, February 19

Eighth homework, due Wednesday, February 28

Exercises 2.3: numbers 1, 2, [postponed from February 19] 4 and 9.

[Also postponed from February 19:] Show that every open set in ( R, H ) (the Sorgenfrey line) is a union of intervals of the form [a, b).

Call a topological space a door space if every subset is either open or closed--in some cases, both. [Terminology is due to J.L. Kelley, ca. 1955.] Show that both the particular point topology and the excluded point topology (page 36, numbers 3 and 4) are door spaces.