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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...
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mathematics by
topologists Lynn
Steen and J.
Arthur Seebach, Jr. In the
process of
working on
problems like the
metrization problem,
topologists (including...
- The
theorem was
developed by
topologists Samuel Eilenberg and
Saunders MacLane. They
discovered that, when
topologists were
writing proofs to establish...
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accessible spaces,
Hausdorff spaces,
regular spaces, and
normal spaces.
Topologists ****igned
these classes of
spaces the
names T1, T2, T3, and T4. Later...
- An often-repeated
mathematical joke is that
topologists cannot tell the
difference between a
coffee mug and a donut,
since a
sufficiently pliable donut...
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indecomposable continuum.
Indecomposable continua have been used by
topologists as a
source of counterexamples. They also
occur in
dynamical systems...
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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...
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spaces are so
named because they were
first extensively studied by
Polish topologists and logicians—Sierpiński, Kuratowski,
Tarski and others. However, Polish...
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included Samuel Eilenberg, the
cofounder of
category theory, and the
topologist Norman Steenrod.
After his 1967
retirement from
Michigan at the rather...
