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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- 1948, from Gk. topos, lit. "place."
- word-forming element meaning "a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science," from Gk. -logia (often via Fr. -logie or M.L. -logia), from root of legein "to speak;" thus, "the character or deportment of one who speaks or treats of (a certain subject);" see lecture (n.).
WIKIPEDIA
Topology
(from the Greek
τόπος, “place”, and λόγος, “study”) is a major area
of mathematics
concerned with the most basic properties of space, such as
connectedness.
More precisely, topology studies properties that are preserved under
continuous
deformations, including stretching and bending, but not tearing or
gluing