From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5954 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean-Pierre Marquis Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The humility topos Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 19:44:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Jean-Pierre Marquis NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278357473 17627 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2010 19:17:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 19:17:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Eduardo J. Dubuc" , Dusko Pavlovic , Categories list To: Michael Barr Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Mon Jul 05 21:17:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVrAq-0003xg-FX for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1OVqbS-00003i-M4 for categories-list@mta.ca; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:41:14 -0300 In-Reply-To: Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5954 Archived-At: Yes, according to Pont, the name "topologie" comes from Johann Benedikt =20 Listing, a student of Gauss, who introduced it for the first time in =20 1836. He referred to analysis situs and geometry but decided that a =20 new name was required and suggested "topology". Best, Jean-Pierre Le 10-07-02 =E0 11:41, Michael Barr a =E9crit : > The older name for topology was "analysis situs", analysis of =20 > place. Why that was changed is unknown to me, but the topo- root is =20= > just Greek for place and it would be a stretch to assume anything =20 > else without good evidence. > > A French mathematician named, IIRC, Jean Pont wrote a book called, =20 > "L'Histoire de la topologie alg=E9brique avant Poincar=E9" that traces = =20 > topology, at least algebraic topologie to Euler's solution to the =20 > bridges of K=F6nigsberg problem. I think V-F+E =3D 2 came next. > > Michael [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]