10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOPOLOGIST»
Discover the use of
topologist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
topologist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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L.E.J. Brouwer –
Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How ...
It was here that Brouwer played a pivotal role.The present biography is an updated revision of the earlier two volume biography in one single book.
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Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the ...
A further impetus for learning DNA topology came in a letter from a topologist,
William Pohl, who said that I had quoted the topology literature inaccurately in
our linking number change paper. I pride myself on referencing fairly, butI could
not ...
Committee on Strengthening the Linkages Between the Sciences and the Mathematical Sciences, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, 2000
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The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical ...
He is Dr. Marion F. Tinsley, a topologist in the department of mathematics at
Florida A. and M. University and probably the greatest checkers player who ever
lived. Rules for chess are now standard throughout the Western world, but not so
for ...
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Perfect Rigour: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough ...
In telling his story, Masha Gessen has constructed a gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius.
... at his feet.41 The topologist Ralph Fox, a go master, almost always made a
beeline for a game board, motioning some student to join him.42 Another
topologist, Norman Steenrod, a good-looking, friendly midwesterner who had just
created ...
The rhythms of the waves competed, ceaselessly, with one another; surfaces and
boundary layers contorted, chasing each other into infinitely varying eddies and
vortices, a topologist's dream, a topologist's nightmare. At one level, the motion ...
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What is Mathematics, Really?
Luillans E. J. Brouwer (1882-1966) An Angry Topologist After logicism came
intuitionism, the doctrine of the great Dutch topologist L. E. I. Brouwer. The name
intuitionism displays its descent from Kant's intuitionist theory of mathematical ...
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Geminos's Introduction to the Phenomena: A Translation and ...
Preface A famous mathematician of the twentieth century once lamented, "The
algebraic topologist has practically ceased to communicate with the point-set
topologist!" This remark is characteristic of our time and culture, in which
knowledge ...
Geminus, James Evans, J. L. Berggren, 2006
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Introduction to the Baum-Connes Conjecture
Moreover, we recall some basic facts concerning G-CW-complexes and spectra
in the topologist's sense. A.l The topologist's model Let G be an arbitrary discrete
group. In this section, we will work in the category of G-CW-complexes.
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The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
That looks better, for the great topologist Solomon Lefschetz joined that
department as early as 1924. Lefschetz has a remarkable story. His family were
Russian merchants who moved to Paris. In France he studied engineering rather
than ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOPOLOGIST»
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topologist is used in the context of the following news items.
How Topology Helps Us Understand Big Data
To a topologist, a sphere and a cube are the same thing. Imagine a cube made from flexible material; inserting a straw and blowing into the cube would puff it out ... «Lifehacker Australia, Jun 15»
What Is Topology?
A topologist studies properties of shapes, in particular ones that are preserved after a shape is twisted, stretched or deformed. This list of allowed changes all fit ... «Live Science, Jun 15»
Will Computers Redefine the Roots of Math?
Studying spaces would be impractical if topologists had to think separately about all possible variations of spaces with the same intrinsic properties. «Wired, Jun 15»
Big Topology
Topologists study spaces by assigning algebraic objects calledinvariants to them. They may be as simple as an integer, but they are often more complicated ... «h+ Magazine, May 15»
A Glimpse into How Mathematicians Party [Excerpt]
... was in evidence at the March 2010 opening of another Japanese-American collaboration, this time between the late topologist Bill Thurston and Dai Fujiwara, ... «Scientific American, Mar 15»
That's Maths: The hole truth about doughtnuts and hyperspheres
Topology is the mathematics of shapes. Geometers consider lengths, angles and other details. Topologists are more interested in overall, global aspects; ... «Irish Times, Feb 15»
A Proof That Some Spaces Can't Be Cut
Subdividing a space in this way, a process known as triangulation, is a basic tool that topologists can use to tease out the properties of manifolds. And the ... «Quanta Magazine, Jan 15»
What We Talk about When We Talk about Holes
But here's my short answer that is also the reason I'm not an algebraic topologist. If you can put it on a necklace, it has a one-dimensional hole. If you can fill it ... «Scientific American, Dec 14»
Math and Art: A Visual Proof
This "thinking outside the box" greatly enhances the topologist's toolbox, and isn't this the definition of artistic creativity? Keeping in that vein, my artwork merges ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
Higher Homotopy Groups Are Spooky
There's an off-color joke about topologists that is homotopic to, “A topologist is someone who can't tell a wedding ring from a hole in the ground but can tell it ... «Scientific American, Oct 14»
