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Developed an early systematic vocabulary and treatment for qualitative spatial relations under the name topology, with examples including knots, complexes and orientation phenomena.
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The work appeared in Göttinger Studien for 1847 and as a separately paginated 1848 imprint; both dates are retained rather than silently collapsed. It does not found every branch of modern topology or absorb later invariant theory.
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Johann Benedict Listing
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Listing: Vorstudien zur Topologie
Developed an early systematic vocabulary and treatment for qualitative spatial relations under the name topology, with examples including knots, complexes and orientation phenomena.
Scientific scope
The work appeared in Göttinger Studien for 1847 and as a separately paginated 1848 imprint; both dates are retained rather than silently collapsed. It does not found every branch of modern topology or absorb later invariant theory.
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Johann Benedict Listing
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.