Concepts about which properties of a space survive continuous stretching and bending. Belongs here: Compact Space and Metric Space. Does not belong here: Manifold, filed under Geometry, whose defining structure is more specifically geometric than the general topological notions grouped here.
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In 1895, he published his ground-breaking paper on Analysis Situs, which introduced the concepts now known as homotopy and homology, which are now considered part of algebraic topology.
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