The evolution of the concept of homeomorphism |
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Authors: | Gregory H Moore |
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Institution: | Department of Mathematics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada |
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Abstract: | Topology, or analysis situs, has often been regarded as the study of those properties of point sets (in Euclidean space or in abstract spaces) that are invariant under “homeomorphisms.” Besides the modern concept of homeomorphism, at least three other concepts were used in this context during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and regarded (by various mathematicians) as characterizing topology: deformations, diffeomorphisms, and continuous bijections. Poincaré, in particular, characterized analysis situs in terms of deformations in 1892 but in terms of diffeomorphisms in 1895. Eventually Kuratowski showed in 1921 that in the plane there can be a continuous bijection of P onto Q, and of Q onto P, without P and Q being homeomorphic. |
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Keywords: | 01A55 01A60 51-03 54-03 57-03 |
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