Mathematicians and computer scientists answered major questions in topology, set theory and even physics, even as computers continued to grow more capable. Mathematicians and computer scientists had ...
As topologists seek to classify shapes, the effort hinges on how to define a manifold and what it means for two of them to be equivalent. Sorting a collection of shapes is child’s play. Circles here, ...
Professor Adam Sikora is helping advance and popularize the growing field of quantum topology, which connects topology and geometry with quantum physics through surprising cross-fertilization of ideas ...
US mathematician Dennis Sullivan has won one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, for his contributions to topology — the study of qualitative properties of shapes — and related fields.