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| | topology -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
 | | Topology, the youngest and most sophisticated branch of geometry, focuses on the properties of geometric objects that remain unchanged upon continuous deformationshrinking, stretching, and folding, but not tearing. |
 | | Basis elements are half-open intervals open on the rightthat is, sets of the form [p, q] in which p, q are points of the horizontal line with p to the left of q, each set consisting of p and all points strictly between p and q. |
 | | His original contributions to the fields of probability theory and topology have had a significant impact on modern physics, chemistry, biology, and cybernetics. |
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