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. He was born in Bad Radkersburg in Styria on 4 June 1891 and died in Innsbruck on 9 April 2002, aged one hundred and ten. He introduced the Vietoris topology on the space of closed subsets of a space, and he was one of the founders of homology theory in its early form.
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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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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.
Mayer-Vietoris Theorem (Wikipedia)
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The result is due to two Austrian mathematicians, Walther Mayer and Leopold Vietoris
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