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topologist

topologist

1 9.9
A mathematician who studies shapes and spaces, like stretching or bending without tearing
  • noun
  • /təˈpɒlədʒɪst/
  • Specialized
: topólogo
  • If I need some result from neuroscience, or for that matter from topology, I do not have the time to spend becoming a neuroscientist or topologist, and it is an immense benefit to have institutions.

It's the more I talk to topologist, the more they seem to not operate at all at all in the visual space.

Examples

  • Contiguity, compactness, which here doesn't mean what topologists think it means, but it means nice shapes.

  • I see James Milgram on the list, a top-notch topologist and math professor at Stanford.

    Blog text (27)

  • So it's and you know, any topologist will recognize this as a feature of.

  • Well, if you ask a topologist, does a measuring cup have volume?

  • To explain it, let me say one way in which topologists distinguish between shapes.

  • That means that what topologists would call that is a doughnut, that it has the shape of a doughnut.

  • The contorted model was knotted like something out of a topologist's nightmare.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • When I think of these things, I sometimes imagine an endless number of reflections of the image into itself, involutions, as the topologists call it.

    Academic text (2000)

  • FORM's secret passion was really no secret to my parents, who had told me about it years before, though not as anything special but more as an illustration, because of its odd similarity to the relationship between my grandfather and his friend Arthur, my father's Uncle Arthur, a topologist and group theoretician who ended his days teaching math and logic at a prep school in New Jersey.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • A topologist studies how shapes can be transformed into one another without tearing or gluing.

How Experienced

senior
∞ 2.9
topologist
  • Specialized
1 9.9
mathematician
64 4.9
researcher
635 2.7
student
∞ 1.0
novice
51 3.4

Surface Forms

topologist singular
topologists plural

Morphology

topologist = topology (transparent) = topology + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' is added to the noun 'topology' to indicate a person who studies or works in topology, a directly derivable formation.

Etymology

Topologist comes from Greek parts topo- 'place', -logy 'study', and -ist 'person who studies', so it literally means someone who studies space or 'places'. A helpful image is a rubber donut and a coffee cup: both have one hole, so a topologist sees them as the same and studies how shapes and space can stretch or bend without breaking, which is what a topologist does.