Alexander horned sphere

noun

Etymology

Discovered by J. W. Alexander (1924).

Definitions

  1. A pathological object, a certain embedding of a sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean…

    A pathological object, a certain embedding of a sphere in three-dimensional Euclidean space, obtained by various modifications of a torus.

The neighborhood

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