What is the theory of shape?

DOI10.1017/S000497270000647XzbMath0452.54010MaRDI QIDQ3899156

Jerzy Dydak, Karol Borsuk

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

bibliography; movability; fundamental dimension; cell-like maps; shape invariants; addition and multiplication of shapes; shape embedding properties; shape-regular compacta; shapes of compact metric spaces; shapes of topological spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

54C56: Shape theory in general topology

55P55: Shape theory

54-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to general topology

55-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to algebraic topology

57N25: Shapes (aspects of topological manifolds)

55Q07: Shape groups

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