noun
- a mathematician who specializes in topology, the study of geometric properties that remain unchanged under continuous deformations
Usage: mathematics
Examples
- The topologist explained how a coffee cup and a donut are topologically equivalent.
- She became a renowned topologist after publishing groundbreaking research on knot theory.
- The university hired a new topologist to teach advanced geometry courses.
- As a topologist, he studies the properties of surfaces that don’t change when stretched or bent.
- The topologist’s work on manifolds contributed to our understanding of higher-dimensional spaces.
- Many topologists collaborate with physicists to explore the geometry of spacetime.