English Explanatory Dictionary

Smale's paradox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The non-intuitive fact that it is possible to turn a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space with possible self-intersections but without creating any crease.

Word forms

Smale's paradox

Etymology

First proven in 1957 by Stephen Smale.

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