Timeline for Least number of charts to describe a given manifold
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| Oct 26, 2009 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Thomas Sauvaget | ||
| Oct 26, 2009 at 14:47 | comment | added | Andy Putman | The concepts are unrelated. The notion of the L-S category predated the "category-theoretic" notion of a category. I suspect that its inspiration comes from the Baire category theorem. | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 14:34 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Is there some reason this has the same name as the "category" that has objects and morphisms, or is this purely a case of the same English word getting used for two mathematical objects? | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 14:07 | history | answered | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |