analysis situs Meaning of "analysis situs"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions

Usage(s):

  • Professor James Waddell Alexander will lecture on combinatorial analysis situs, hold seminars on the applications of algebra and group theory to topology.
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