Mathematicians think of everything as rubber

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January 6, 1940 | Vol. 37 | No. 1        

Mathematicians think of everything as rubber

Topology, which you won’t find defined in the ordinary dictionary, was on the tip of mathematical tongues at the Columbus science meetings. This new geometry is as popular with the mathematicians as exploration of the atom is with physicists.