Sometimes called rubber-sheet geometry: the study of properties of a space that survive continuous deformation, stretching and bending but not tearing or gluing. A coffee cup and a doughnut are topologically the same shape, each with exactly one hole. The field grew out of Leonhard Euler's 1736 solution to the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem and matured through the twentieth century into algebraic and differential topology, culminating in results such as the 2003 proof of the Poincare conjecture.
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Central QuestionWhich properties of a space survive continuous deformation, and how can spaces be classified by those properties alone, independent of any notion of distance or angle? 2 Key DebateWhether topology is fundamentally about the intuitive picture of rubber-sheet shape, or whether, as the categorical reframing of the subject holds, it is really about structure-preserving maps between spaces, a description under which the intuitive picture of stretching and bending is only a special, if illuminating, case. 2 Classification
Pure or Applied Topology
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1. Pure mathematics (Wikipedia)
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Major advances in the beginning of 20th century was the formalization of abstract algebra and topology; these two fields were deeply influenced by the pure mathematics philosophy.
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Topological ideas are present in almost all areas of today's mathematics. The subject of topology itself consists of several different branches, such as point set topology, algebraic topology and differential topology, which have relatively little in common.
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Henri Poincare can be said to have been the originator of algebraic topology and of the theory of analytic functions of several complex variables.
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Topology, branch of mathematics, sometimes referred to as rubber sheet geometry, in which two objects are considered equivalent if they can be continuously deformed into one another.
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the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations
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It states that for any continuous function f mapping a nonempty compact convex set to itself, there is a point x0 such that f(x0) = x0.
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a metric space is a set together with a notion of distance between its points
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a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point
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His contributions include the Atiyah-Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory.
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In the mathematical field of geometric topology, the Poincaré conjecture (UK: , US: , French: [pwɛ̃kaʁe]) is a theorem about the characterization of the 3-sphere (the hypersphere that bounds the 4-ball in four-dimensional space).
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the Hilbert-Smith conjecture is concerned with the possible transformation groups of manifolds
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In mathematics and more specifically in topology, a homeomorphism (from Greek roots meaning "similar shape", named by Henri Poinca
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In mathematics, specifically in topology, the operation of connected sum is a geometric modification on manifolds.
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provides an instructive example of some ideas in topology.
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In topology, the degree or Brouwer degree of a continuous mapping between two compact oriented manifolds of the same dimension is
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In topology, a branch of mathematics, the smash product of two pointed spaces (i.e.
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Novikov conjecture (Wikipedia)
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is one of the most important unsolved problems in topology.
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In topology in mathematics, Freedman's classification (or Freedman's theorem) is a central result about four-dimensional topologic
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heorem (after Nicolaas Kuiper) is a result on the topology of operators on an infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space H.
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point in its unitary dual equipped with the Fell topology.
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general topology
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topological spaces
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fundamental results in topology
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topology
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specializing in topology
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He was part of an influential school of topology at Princeton University
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as well as topology
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now remembered mostly for his 1871 paper on topology
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who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology
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Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics.
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He is remembered as a pioneer of topology, which also takes its name from his work.
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He was the discoverer and eponym of Boy's surface-a three-dimensional projection of the real projective plane without singularities, the first of its kind.
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Isaac Namioka (April 25, 1928, September 25, 2019) was a Japanese-American mathematician who worked in general topology and functional analysis.
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Heinz Hopf (19 November 1894-3 June 1971) was a German mathematician who worked on the fields of dynamical systems, topology and geometry. == Early life and education == Hopf was born in Gräbschen, German Empire (now Grabiszyn, part of Wrocław, Poland), the son of Elizabeth (née Kirchner) and Wilh
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Willi Ludwig August Rinow (February 28th, 1907 in Berlin, March 29th, 1979 in Greifswald) was a German mathematician who specialized in differential geometry and topology.
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He is primarily known for his contributions to set theory, topology, measure theory and graph theory.
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Max Wilhelm Dehn (November 13, 1878, June 27, 1952) was a German mathematician most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory.
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He also gave fundamental contributions to the mathematics of topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics, functional analysis, algorithmic information theory and computational complexity.
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In mathematics, a condensation point p of a subset S of a topological space is any point p such that every neighborhood of p contains uncountably many points of S.
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A lens space is an example of a topological space, considered in mathematics.
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In mathematics, the Lebesgue covering dimension or topological dimension of a topological space is one of several different ways of defining the dimension of the space in a topologically invariant way.
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of the 2-sphere into 3-dimensional Euclidean space. The topological object was discovered by J. W. Alexander (1924).
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of a 3-sphere is a 4-ball. It is called a 3-sphere because topologically, the surface itself is 3-dimensional, even
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contractible 2-dimensional CW complex
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He is known for the Arf invariant in topology
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Gustave Choquet was a French mathematician who worked in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory.
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Herbert Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who worked in topology, measure theory, statistics,and other fields.
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Herbert Seifert was a German mathematician who made important contributions to topology and knot theory.
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Karol Borsuk was a Polish mathematician who made important contributions to topology.
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Leopold Vietoris was a long-lived Austrian mathematician best known for his contributions to topology, especially the Mayer-Vietoris sequence. He was also interested in mathematical history.
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Pavel Aleksandrov was a Russian mathematician who made important contributions to general topology.
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Reinhold Baer 's mathematical work was wide ranging; topology, abelian groups and geometry. His most important work, however, was in group theory, on the extension problem for groups, finiteness conditions, soluble and nilpotent groups.
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Von Dyck made important contributions to function theory, group theory ( where a fundamental result on group presentations is named after him ) topology and potential theory.
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Poul Heegaard was a Danish mathematician who ( with Max Dehn ) was the first to classify compact surfaces.
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