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About This Class

URL: http://drorbn.net/20-1350 and/or http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/classes/20-1350-KnotTheory.

Disclaimer. Everything on this page remains tentative until it had happenned. The Evil Virus situation may force us to make last minute changes to anything.

Agenda. Multiple tastes of multi-faceted Knot Theory.

Instructor. Dror Bar-Natan, drorbn@math.toronto.edu (for course administration matters only; math on email is slow and prone to misunderstandings, so I generally avoid it). Office: Bahen 6178 (these days, mostly vacant).

Classes. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1-2PM, online at http://drorbn.net/vclass.

Office Hours. Tuesdays ay 9-10AM and at 1-2PM, online at http://drorbn.net/vchat.

Texts. No "course text", yet we will use material from the books by Lickorish, Burde and Zieschang, Kauffman, Rolfsen, and more.

Current Class Notes. Are here.

Possible Topics (not in order).

Prerequisites. The core classes in topology and in algebra, or the willingness and ability to learn the relevant background material from these classes on the fly.

Marking Scheme. About 10 HW equal-weight assignments, only the top 7 will count.

Homework. Assignments will be posted on the course web page (usually on Wednesdays) approximately on the weeks shown in the class timeline.

Photo Album. Just for fun, I will maintain a public photo album related to MAT1350. Please send me photos! You may send your own portrait or any other photo of you or other students engaging in MAT1350-related activities. You may overlay your photos with some caption text, if you wish. If your photos contain images or names of any persons other than youself you must obtain permission from these people before you submit their photos, and when you submit, you must CC all people seen or mentioned in the photos. If anybody will ever ask me to remove a photo in which they appear or are mentioned, I will do so ASAP with no questions asked.

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