From rajlakmi@hd1.vsnl.net.in Fri Dec 18 07:13:35 1998 Return-Path: From: TECCONS ENMAG GROUP COS R RAJGOPAL To: Subject: Fw: from a topology student needing help Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 17:53:11 +0530 Subject: from a topology student needing help Hi.My name is Ambica Rajagopal.I am an undergraduate student in mathematics at an Indian university,Birla Institute Of Technology And Science,Pilani. Last semester I did an introductory course in general topology.Since I took to the subject I am doing a further course in algebraic topology next semester. For an upcoming academic festival I would like to do the following: show lifting of path homotopies to a covering space pictorially on the computer,use it to explain how spaces are topologically different(because of difference in their first fundamental groups) and if possible use the above ideas to prove a corollary of the Van Kampen theorem . the idea is to picturise on the computer what actually happens in the above discussions making the concepts easier to grasp. Could you suggest some software that would be the easiest to work out the above ideas on? looking forward to hearing from you, Ambica. ambiks@hotmail.com or fd96358@bits-pilani.ac.in (after the 3rd of January) =20 ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01BE2AAF.51B4CF40 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
 
Subject: from a topology student = needing=20 help

Hi.My name is Ambica Rajagopal.I am an undergraduate = student=20 in mathematics at an Indian university,Birla Institute Of Technology And = Science,Pilani.
Last semester I did an introductory course in = general=20 topology.Since I took to the subject I am doing a further course in = algebraic=20 topology next semester.
For an upcoming academic festival I would like to do = the=20 following:
show lifting of path homotopies to a covering space=20 pictorially on the computer,use it to explain how spaces are = topologically=20 different(because of difference in their first fundamental groups) and = if=20 possible use the above ideas to prove a corollary of the Van Kampen = theorem=20 .
the idea is to picturise on the computer what = actually happens=20 in the above discussions making the concepts easier to = grasp.
Could you suggest some software that would be the = easiest to=20 work out the above ideas on?
looking forward to hearing from you,
Ambica.
ambiks@hotmail.com
or
fd96358@bits-pilani.ac.in
(after the 3rd of January)
 
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