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Surfaces So Different Even a Fourth Dimension Can’t Make

Them the Same


Via Quanta Magazine by Kevin Hartnett

In geometry and the closely related field of topology, adding a spatial dimension can often have wondrous effects:
Previously distinct objects become indistinguishable. But a new proof finds there are some objects whose differences
are so stark, they can’t be effaced with a little more space. The work, posted at the end of May, solves a question
posed by Charles Livingston in 1982 concerning...

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