Topology and subsets - the story of a theorem

2010/11/04 by Michał Adamaszek, Adamaszek, Michał
Mathematics · #Advanced Topics in Algebra #Advanced Topology and Set Theory #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology #math.GN #math.HO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.1236

This article is a translation of the original (in Polish), written for Matematyka, Spoleczenstwo, Nauczanie, Vol.46. It is an extended version of the talk by the author at the XLV Szkola Matematyki Pogladowej, Jachranka, Poland, 27-31 August 2010, see http://www.msn.ap.siedlce.pl

arxiv created 2010/11/04 · arxiv updated 2010/11/13

Abstract

In this exposition the space of at most 3-element subsets of the circle, first identified by Borsuk and Bott, is used as a motivation to introduce the readers to a variety of methods in (algebraic) topology.

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