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Topology

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Mathematicians conceive everything as sets, even the real line. As a set, the real line is just an unordered collections of real numbers whereas our intuitive understanding arranges these as a “continuum”. Topology is a way of turning sets into spaces. It allows us to talk about continuity of functions, limit processes, and concepts such as compactness and connectedness.

In this lecture I will present some of the basic notions from topology and illustrate its expressive power.

For a long time it was thought that topology had no role to play in computer science since computers deal with discrete (usually finite) structures. This is not so, however. I will give two examples. One is the recognition and classification of manifolds (but I am not a practitioner in this field) and the other is from the semantics of programming languages.

This talk is part of the SoCS PhD Research Training Sessions series.

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