INTRODUCTION 1 Set theory 2 General topology 3 Group theory 4 Modules 5 Euclidean spaces 1 HOMOTOPy AND THE FUNDAMENTAL GROUP 1 Categories 2 Functors 3 Homotopy 4 Retraction and deforma 5 H spaces 6 Suspension 7 The fundamental groupoid 8 The fundamental group Exercises 2 COVERING SPACES AND FIHHATIONS 1 Covering protections 2 The homotopy lifting property 3 Relations with the fundamental group 4 The lifting problem 5 The classification of covering protections 6 Covering transformations 7 Fiber bundles 8 Fibrations Exercises 3 POLYBEDHA 1 Simplicial complexes 2 Linearity in simpltctal complexes 3 Subdivision 4 Simplicial approximation 5 Contiguity classes 6 The edge-path groupoid 7 Graphs 8 Examples and applications Exercises 4 HOMOLOGY 1 Chain complexes 2 Chain homotopy 3 The homology of simpltctal complexes 4 Singular homology 5 Exactness 6 Mayer-Vietorls sequences 7 Some applications of homology 8 Axiomatic characterization of homology Exercises 5 PRODUCTS 6 GENERAL COHOMOLOGY THEORY AND DUALITY 7 HOMOTOPY THEORY 8 OBSTRU CTION THEORY 9 SPECTRAL SEQUENCES AND HOMOTOPY GROUPS OF SPHERES INDEX