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unusual facts about algebraic topology



Felix Browder

Felix Browder is the father of Bill Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, and is the brother of two other research mathematicians, William Browder (an algebraic topologist) and Andrew Browder (a specialist in function algebras).

Landweber exact functor theorem

In mathematics, the Landweber exact functor theorem, named after Peter Landweber, is a theorem in algebraic topology.


see also

Cartan

Henri Cartan (1904-2008), French mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, son of the above

George Yuri Rainich

According to some sources, Peter Gabriel Bergmann brought Rainich's suggestion that algebraic topology (and knot theory in particular) should play a role in physics to the attention of John Archibald Wheeler, which shortly led to the Ph.D. thesis of Charles W. Misner.

HLP

Homotopy lifting property, in algebraic topology, a technical condition on a continuous function from a topological space E to another one, B designed to support the picture of E "above" B