topologist
- a word derived from topology.
Example Sentences
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As an old topology joke goes: “A topologist is somebody who can’t tell the difference between a coffee mug and a doughnut.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2023
This example inspired the joke that a topologist cannot tell the difference between a coffee mug and a doughnut: as abstract spaces, these objects are the same.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 14, 2021
There, she became the top student of acclaimed topologist William Waldron Schieffelin Claytor, the third African American to earn a PhD in maths.
From Nature ● Mar. 11, 2020
Many of my topologist colleagues, who study the properties of geometric objects, seem to live in an alternative, imagined world.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
There’s a math joke that a topologist can’t tell a donut from a coffee mug because they both have one hole.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2017
