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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Free Modules, Exact Sequences, Projective and Injective Modules
- Group Homomorphisms and the Isomorphism Theorems
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Modules, Submodules, Quotient Modules and the Isomorphism Theorems
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
- Tensor Products of Modules
Algebraic Topology
- Complex Topological K Theory and Bott Periodicity
- Cup Cap Cross Products and Cohomology Rings
- Cw Complexes and Cellular Homology
- Fibrations Fiber Bundles and Homotopy Exact Sequences
- Higher Homotopy Groups and Cofiber Sequences
- Homology Axioms Degree and Classical Applications
- Obstruction Theory, Postnikov Towers, and Classifying Spaces
- Relative Homology Excision and Mayer Vietoris
- Simplicial Complexes and Simplicial Homology
- Simplicial Subdivision and Simplicial Approximation
- Singular Chains and Singular Homology
- Singular Cohomology and Coefficient Theorems
- Spectra and Stable Homotopy Groups
- Topological Vector Bundles and Grassmannian Classification
Category Theory
- Abelian Categories
- Categories, Functors and Natural Transformations
- Exactness and the Member Calculus
- Limits and Colimits
- Preadditive and Additive Categories and Biproducts
- Reflective Subcategories and the Adjoint Functor Theorems
- The Diagram Lemmas in an Abelian Category
- Universal Properties, Representables and the Yoneda Lemma
Complex Analysis
- Complex Coordinate and Path Transport
- Complex Differentiability and the Cauchy–Riemann Equations
- Contour Integration
- Goursat's Theorem and Cauchy's Theorem in a Convex Domain
- Simply Connected Plane Domains: the Grand Equivalence
- The Identity Theorem, the Maximum Principle and the Open Mapping Theorem
- The Winding Number and the Global Cauchy Theorem
Homological Algebra
Linear Algebra
Real Analysis
- Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Rearrangement; Products
- Arc Length and Rectifiable Curves
- Bounded Variation and the Riemann–Stieltjes Integral
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Equivalent Forms of Completeness
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Fundamental Trigonometric Identities
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Line Integrals and the Gradient Theorem
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Power Series and Real-Analytic Functions
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Sequences and Series of Functions; Uniform Convergence
- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Sine, Cosine, and the Definition of Pi
- Suprema and Infima
- The Cantor Set, Baire Category, and Measure Zero in ℝ
- The Complex Exponential and Euler's Formula
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Exponential Function
- The Formal Laurent Series Field ℝ((t⁻¹)): Cauchy Complete, Non-Archimedean, Not Complete
- The Fundamental Theorems of Calculus
- The Logarithm and General Powers
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- Topology of ℝ
Set Theory
- Cardinal Arithmetic, Cofinality and the Alephs
- Construction of the Natural Numbers
- Filters and Ultrafilters
- Order, Zorn's Lemma, and the Axiom of Choice
- Ordinal Arithmetic and the First Uncountable Ordinal
- Ordinals, Cardinals, and Transfinite Recursion
- Relations, Functions, and Quotients
- The ZFC Axioms and the Basic Set Constructions
Topology
- Applications of the Fundamental Group
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Connectedness
- Covering Spaces and Lifting
- Function Space Topologies and the Exponential Law
- Hausdorff via the Diagonal
- Homotopy and Homotopy Equivalence
- Metric Spaces
- Partitions of Unity and Paracompactness
- Separation Axioms: the Hierarchy
- Subspaces, Products, and Quotients
- The Fundamental Group
- The Fundamental Group of the Circle
- The Seifert–van Kampen Theorem
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
- Uniform Spaces: the Three Definitions
- Urysohn's Lemma and the Tietze Extension Theorem
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Example
K-theory of a point and the empty space
Example
The complex K-ring of S²
Example
Complex K-theory of even and odd spheres
Example
The complex K-ring of CPⁿ
Example
The rank map on a disconnected compact space
Counterexample
Stable isomorphism does not imply actual bundle isomorphism
Sources
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, §§2.1–2.2
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 24 §§1–2
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, Corollary 2.3
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 24 §2
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, §2.2
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, Proposition 2.24
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 24 §3
- May, A Concise Course in Algebraic Topology, Chapter 24 §1
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, beginning of §2.1
- Hatcher, Vector Bundles & K-Theory, §1.1 tangent-bundle example
- Milnor and Stasheff, Characteristic Classes, §2