Solomon Lefschetz

American mathematician

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In mathematics: Algebraic topology
…then by the American engineer-turned-mathematician Solomon Lefschetz, concerning the nature of manifolds of arbitrary dimension. Roughly speaking, a manifold is the n-dimensional generalization of the idea of a surface; it is a space any small piece of which looks like a piece of n-dimensional space. Such an object is often…
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