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Record Nr.

UNISA996466543303316

Autore

Schmidt Gunther

Titolo

Relational Topology [[electronic resource] /] / by Gunther Schmidt, Michael Winter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-74451-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 194 p. 104 illus., 68 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 2208

Disciplina

514

Soggetti

Topology

Mathematical logic

Category theory (Mathematics)

Homological algebra

Algebra

Computer science—Mathematics

Computer mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Category Theory, Homological Algebra

General Algebraic Systems

Mathematical Applications in Computer Science

Discrete Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1.Introduction -- 2. Prerequisites -- 3. Products of Relations -- 4. Meet and Join as Relations -- 5. Applying Relations in Topology -- 6. Construction of Topologies -- 7. Closures and their Aumann Contacts -- 8. Proximity and Nearness -- 9. Frames -- 10. Simplicial Complexes.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces and develops new algebraic methods to work with relations, often conceived as Boolean matrices, and applies them to topology. Although these objects mirror the matrices that appear throughout mathematics, numerics, statistics, engineering, and



elsewhere, the methods used to work with them are much less well known. In addition to their purely topological applications, the volume also details how the techniques may be successfully applied to spatial reasoning and to logics of computer science. Topologists will find several familiar concepts presented in a concise and algebraically manipulable form which is far more condensed than usual, but visualized via represented relations and thus readily graspable. This approach also offers the possibility of handling topological problems using proof assistants.