Differential Topology

10 credits

Course, Master's level, 1MA259

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Location
Uppsala
Pace of study
33%
Teaching form
On-campus
Instructional time
Daytime
Study period
1 September 2025–18 January 2026
Language of instruction
English
Entry requirements

120 credits including 90 credits in mathematics. Participation in Real Analysis. Basic Topology is recommended. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Application deadline
15 April 2025
Application code
UU-10061

Admitted or on the waiting list?

Registration period
18 August 2025–14 September 2025
Information on registration from the department

Location
Uppsala
Pace of study
33%
Teaching form
On-campus
Instructional time
Daytime
Study period
1 September 2025–18 January 2026
Language of instruction
English
Entry requirements

120 credits including 90 credits in mathematics. Participation in Real Analysis. Basic Topology is recommended. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Admitted or on the waiting list?

Registration period
18 August 2025–14 September 2025
Information on registration from the department

Expand the information below to show details on how to apply and entry requirements.

Location
Uppsala
Pace of study
33%
Teaching form
On-campus
Instructional time
Daytime
Study period
31 August 2026–17 January 2027
Language of instruction
English
Entry requirements

120 credits including 90 credits in mathematics. Participation in Real Analysis. Basic Topology is recommended. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Application deadline
15 April 2026
Application code
UU-10061

Admitted or on the waiting list?

Information on registration from the department

Location
Uppsala
Pace of study
33%
Teaching form
On-campus
Instructional time
Daytime
Study period
31 August 2026–17 January 2027
Language of instruction
English
Entry requirements

120 credits including 90 credits in mathematics. Participation in Real Analysis. Basic Topology is recommended. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Admitted or on the waiting list?

Information on registration from the department

About the course

The course contains Manifolds, submanifolds, smooth maps, tangent space, and tangent bundles. The constant rank theorem. Immersions and embeddings. Submersions. Transversality. Sard's theorem. Brouwer's fixed-point theorem. Intersection theory modulo 2. Jordan-Brouwer's separation theorem. Orientation. Oriented intersection theory. Lefschetz's fixed-point theorem. The degree of a map. Hopf's degree theorem. Vector fields on manifolds and Poincaré-Hopf's theorem. Morse functions. Classification of one- and two-dimensional manifolds.

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