Abstract
Henri Poincaré was studying the behavior of solutions of differential equations when he developed the fundamental group and so started the active and growing fields of geometric and algebraic topology. In this chapter we indicate some of the connections between topology and calculus, as examples of sort of unexpected relationships and applications between seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. Students too often see mathematics as compartmentalized.
“So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality”
Albert Einstein
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Kinsey, L.C. (1993). Topology and calculus. In: Topology of Surfaces. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0899-0_11
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