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Discovered by J. W. Alexander (1924).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A pathological object, a certain embedding of a sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean space, obtained by various modifications of a torus. Full definition →
Discovered by J. W. Alexander (1924).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.