topology....maps!....(which are not the territory)!,,,and are all over AtD

[Mark Kohut]

Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:    The development of topology was part of this proliferation of new
abstractions. The idea was to develop a "geometry" that studies  properties
of figures that are not destroyed by continuous deformation, and thus do
not depend on notions such as straight lines, circules, cubes, and so on,
or on measurement of lenths, areas, volumes, or angles."

Continuous deformation! This sound like more anarchy to me.
Jill
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