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Recent Examples of homology
Which part of the complex manifold’s homology can be obtained by looking at these topological invariants?
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Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
By the end of that decade those methods had blossomed into an entire area of study, Heegaard Floer homology, and within that area there are now a number of different approaches to distinguishing manifolds.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Mathematician Jose Perea of Northeastern University and a team of computational biologists used persistent homology to find periodic biological processes—those that repeat at regular intervals.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
To find these implicit pictures, mathematicians use a technique known as persistent homology.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
After using some standard techniques to simplify the data, the team computed the persistent homology of the system by connecting the data points at different scales and examining the resulting simplicial complexes.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
Hayden and Sundberg had been doing some exciting work recently using an invariant called Khovanov homology, which uses algebra to extract information about how an object is put together.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
Toward this end, the book explains the important difference between analogy and homology.
—David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022
Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
There is an object, called a homology, which gives you a lot of topological information about the manifold.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Mar. 2024
By the end of that decade those methods had blossomed into an entire area of study, Heegaard Floer homology, and within that area there are now a number of different approaches to distinguishing manifolds.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Mathematician Jose Perea of Northeastern University and a team of computational biologists used persistent homology to find periodic biological processes—those that repeat at regular intervals.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
To find these implicit pictures, mathematicians use a technique known as persistent homology.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
After using some standard techniques to simplify the data, the team computed the persistent homology of the system by connecting the data points at different scales and examining the resulting simplicial complexes.
—Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
Hayden and Sundberg had been doing some exciting work recently using an invariant called Khovanov homology, which uses algebra to extract information about how an object is put together.
—Quanta Magazine, 16 June 2022
Toward this end, the book explains the important difference between analogy and homology.
—David P. Barash, WSJ, 6 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homology
Noun
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The process of forming the people, creating the conditions for national homogeneity, was and still is accompanied by ethnic cleansing—or sometimes genocide.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Political scientists have identified long-standing trends that have contributed to the deepening polarization of Congress, including the growing ideological homogeneity of each party and the breakdown of the media into echo chambers.—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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There’s moral equivalence, and then there’s a total moral inversion.—
The Editors,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2025
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Combating antisemitism should not come at the cost of distorting reality or creating false equivalences.—
Yinam Cohen,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Several times, as another musician plays, Monk stands center stage and spins in place, in febrile oneness with the music.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The illusion of separation, the truth of universal oneness.—
Oshan Jarow,
Vox,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Homology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homology. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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