{"id":2367,"date":"2017-04-04T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2017-04-04T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T12:02:14","slug":"nice-article-on-basics-of-topology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/?p=2367","title":{"rendered":"Nice Article on Basics of Topology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\" target=\"_display\"> <em>American Mathematical Society<\/em><\/a> has printed a nice, non-technical discussion of some basics of modern topology, necessarily intermingled with a discussion of modern geometry.  It&#8217;s in the form of a tribute to a highly regarded mathematician  who was one of the pioneers of modern topology, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Thurston\" target=\"_display\"> <em>William Thurston<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article is found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/samplings\/feature-column\/fc-2017-04\" target=\"_display\"> <em>Remembering Bill Thurston (1946-2012)<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good one and might help those without mathematical backgrounds to understand what is behind some of my recent writings including the book: <a href=\"http:\/\/loydfueston.com\/downloads\/shape.pdf\" target=\"_display\"> <em>The Shape of Reality<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Mathematical Society has printed a nice, non-technical discussion of some basics of modern topology, necessarily intermingled with a discussion of modern geometry. It&#8217;s in the form of a tribute to a highly regarded mathematician who was one of the pioneers of modern topology, William Thurston. The article is found at: Remembering Bill Thurston &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/?p=2367\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-loydf","post-2367","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Vq7-Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loydfueston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}