Topology Quotes
- [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing-one great,… — Paul Halmos
- There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to… — Edward Witten
- In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you… — Edward Witten
- ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. — John C. Baez
- Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom
- Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early… — Raymond Louis Wilder
- Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations. — R. Buckminster Fuller
- A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex… — Jacques Lacan
- Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare
- I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology… — Whitfield Diffie