English Explanatory Dictionary

Haken

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Irreducible, compact, and containing a non-∂-parallel incompressible surface (besides a sphere or disk).

Word forms

Haken

Etymology

For Wolfgang Haken, who studied these manifolds.

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