Topology: An Introduction

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Smithsonian Learning Lab
Topology: An Introduction
Geometry, geology, and geography are words that are easily confused. More confusing still, those fields
of study share a word that means two very different things, depending on the field. The word is topology.
To a geographer or geologist, topology has to do with the planet's surface and its changeable forms. To a
geometrician, topology has to do with the constant properties of forms—properties that never change.
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