Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Analysis situs (a geometry of position, or what we now call topology) - Henri Poincare (1895)

. . . geometry is the art of reasoning well from badly drawn figures;
however, these figures, if they are not to deceive us, must satisfy
certain conditions; the proportions may be grossly altered, but the
relative positions of the different parts must not be upset.

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