The problem of the invariance of dimension in the growth of modern topology. II

DOI10.1007/BF02116242zbMath0532.55001OpenAlexW2024835680MaRDI QIDQ789050

Dale M. Johnson

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02116242

zbMATH Keywords

bibliographytopological dimensioninvariance of dimensioninductive definition of dimensionn- dimensional domain invariancen-dimensional Jordan separation theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Dimension theory in general topology (54F45) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Dimension theory in algebraic topology (55M10) History of algebraic topology (55-03) History of general topology (54-03)

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