homotopy
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of homotopy
1915–20; homo- + -topy (< Greek tóp ( os ) place + -y 3, or < New Latin -topia )
Example Sentences
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The researchers provide a unified skyrmion-hopfion homotopy classification and offer an insight into the diversity of topological solitons in three-dimensional chiral magnets.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2023
In contrast, in the fundamental groupoid of the disk, there is only one path up to homotopy between any pair of points.
From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021
These proof assistants have a mechanism that mimics the common mathematical practice of transferring information about one thing to another thing that is understood to be the same via an explicit isomorphism or homotopy equivalence.
From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2021
Vladimir Voevodsky revolutionized algebraic geometry and is best known for developing the new field of ‘motivic homotopy theory’.
From Nature
Motivic homotopy theory is blossoming, despite Voevodsky’s change of focus about ten years ago.
From Nature
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