Objectives

There are two objectives for this web site:

• A guide for a senior or a first-year graduate student who would like to read the most recent papers in algebraic topology with as little prerequisites as possible.
• An experiment of web technologies for publishing mathematical contents.

Somebody might object against the idea “to read the most recent papers with as little prerequisites as possible”. It is important to read good old papers thoroughly to understand the fundamental ideas. It is, however, important to practice to move around in the ocean of the literature. That’s what I mean by “most recent papers with as little prerequisites as possible”.

I have experimented several methods to find a good way to publish mathematical contents on the web. The following are examples that are produced by converting L A T E X data into web data:

• Fiber Bundles and Homotopy
• Groups, Homotopy, and Configuration Spaces: Conference in honor of Fred Cohen

This web site is one of my experiments with a couple of new technologies.

Now this site has the third objective: records of interesting papers I found, for example, in arXiv. This information is, of course, important when I supervise graduate students.