English Explanatory Dictionary

Hausdorff gap

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pair of collections of integer sequences such that there is no integer sequence lying between the two.

Word forms

Hausdorff gap Hausdorff gaps

Etymology

Named after German mathematician Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), who published proof of the first example in 1909.

Related words

Rothberger gap
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