-
cutting or gluing. A
famous example,
known as the "
Topologist's Breakfast", is that a
topologist cannot distinguish a
coffee mug from a doughnut; a sufficiently...
- In the
branch of
mathematics known as topology, the
topologist's sine
curve or
Warsaw sine
curve is a
topological space with
several interesting properties...
- In mathematics, low-dimensional
topology is the
branch of
topology that
studies manifolds, or more
generally topological spaces, of four or
fewer dimensions...
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supervisorial relationship between Dutch topologist Johannes De
Groot and his namesake, also a
Dutch topologist descended from the
senior De
Groot via four...
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space has
properties that
serve as a
number of counterexamples. The
topologist's sine
curve has
similar properties to the comb space. The
deleted comb...
- W****s (born
December 10, 1956) is an
American mathematician, a
geometric topologist and cosmologist. W****s is a 1999
MacArthur Fellow. W****s
received his...
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Robert Lee
Moore (November 14, 1882 –
October 4, 1974) was an
American mathematician who
taught for many
years at the
University of Texas. He is known...
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manifolds should be
called "irreducible"; however, the
topologist (in
particular the 3-manifold
topologist)
finds the
definition above more useful. The only...
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Allen Edward Hatcher (born
October 23, 1944) is an
American topologist.
Hatcher was born in Indianapolis, Indiana.
After obtaining his B.S from Oberlin...
- An often-repeated
mathematical joke is that
topologists cannot tell the
difference between a
coffee mug and a donut,
since a
sufficiently pliable donut...
