To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:00:05 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: topology
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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A World of Doughnuts and Spheres
NYT April 20, 2003
By GEORGE JOHNSON

Though you might not guess it from trying to read some of
the research papers, the whole point of mathematics is to
make things simpler. No one has taken this more seriously
than the topologists, a rarefied breed of thinkers who
insist that the world, however messy and diverse it may
appear, is really made of just two basic shapes, the
doughnut and the sphere.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/weekinreview/20JOHN.html

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