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Let us take a moment to remind ourselves of the definition of a surface given in the previous chapter (Definition 1.1). We introduce the terminology homeomorphism to mean a continuous bijective function with a continuous inverse.
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Bray, C., Butscher, A., Rubinstein-Salzedo, S. (2021). Surfaces. In: Algebraic Topology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70608-1_2
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