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A metric characterization of Hilbert spaces
In the Wikipedia paper on Hadamard spaces, it is written that every flat Hadamard space is isometric to a closed convex subset of a Hilbert space. Looking through references provided by this Wikipedia ...
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Notations for open and closed sets
I am wondering why a standard notation for open sets is $G$ and that for closed sets is $F$. I mean, $F$ precedes $G$ in the alphabet, whereas open sets are usually introduced before closed ones.
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Why did Robertson and Seymour call their breakthrough result a "red herring"?
One of the major results in graph theory is the graph structure theorem from Robertson and Seymour
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_structure_theorem. It gives a deep and fundamental connection ...
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Fréchet L-Spaces
According to the paper The emergence of open sets, closed sets, and limit points
in analysis and topology famous mathematician Maurice Fréchet who introduced the concept of metric spaces has also ...
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Who first defined _simply connected_, reference?
The following definition is due to Donald J. Newman:
A connected open subset $D$ of the plane $\mathbb C$
is simply connected
if and only if its complement $\widetilde D = \mathbb C \setminus D$
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Original proof of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem
I am looking for the original proof by Borsuk of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem. I would appreciate very much if someone could outline the proof.