Math 490: Topics in Mathematics (Knot Theory)

Section 1, January 2008

General Information

Instructor: Chris Staecker (Personal Homepage)

Email: cstaecker@messiah.edu

Office: Frey 327

Office Hours: MTWTF 1-2

Textbook: Adams, The Knot Book (first edition)

Class Meetings: MWTRF 8:30-12:00, Jordan 163

Daily Schedule

Detailed class schedule (25KB PDF) LaTeX source

Other Materials

• Syllabus (76KB PDF) LaTeX source

Coming Attractions

1/16: Homework #1 due

Chapter 1, exercises: 2, 4, 5, 8-11, 13-17, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30, 31
Chapter 2, exercises: 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10
These extra problems (updated 1/10) (45KB) LaTeX source

1/23: Homework #2 due

Chapter 2, exercises: 13, 14, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22

Chapter 1, exercises: 34, 36

Chapter 3, exercises: 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, 14

Chapter 4, exercises: 2, 10, 13-16, 18, 19, 20 (just do one of these), 21, 22, 24 (just 7₆)

1/30: Homework #3 due

Chapter 5, exercises: 2, 4, 5, 8b, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28

Chapter 6, exercises: 1-5, 7, 8, 9, 14-19, 20a, 21

These extra problems (85KB PDF) LaTeX source