Herbert Seifert was a German mathematician who made important contributions to topology and knot theory. He was born in Bernstadt in Saxony on 27 May 1907 and died in Heidelberg on 1 October 1996. He introduced a way of building a surface bounded by any knot, now called a Seifert surface, and he worked on fibrations of three-dimensional spaces by circles. The Seifert surface and the Seifert fibre space are connected with his name, which places him among the founders of the modern study of knots and three-dimensional manifolds.
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Herbert Seifert was a German mathematician who made important contributions to topology and knot theory.
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Herbert Seifert was a German mathematician who made important contributions to topology and knot theory.
Seifert Surface (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, a Seifert surface (named after German mathematician Herbert Seifert) is an orientable surface whose boundary is a given knot or link
Van Kampen's Theorem (Wikipedia)
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In mathematics, the Seifert-Van Kampen theorem of algebraic topology (named after Herbert Seifert and Egbert van Kampen), sometimes just called Van Kampen's theorem, expresses the structure of the fundamental group of a topological space
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