homology

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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? 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 These became known as generalized homology theories. Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2021 Solidarity between oppressed peoples across the globe isn't about a perfect homology. Cherrell Brown, refinery29.com, 21 June 2021 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homology
Noun
  • That unattainable homogeneity is part of Putin’s rhetoric, claiming that there’s no discernable Ukrainian culture.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The basic ideological homogeneity of the press corps isn’t some secret that’s tightly guarded by journalists or even the people who run news organizations.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Advertisement Science and quackery cannot be treated as having scientific and moral equivalence.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • There is no moral equivalence between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • In defining these mystical experiences — a task akin to pinning a Flubber tail on a cosmically large donkey — the Hopkins team drew on the work of Walter Stace, an English philosopher who argued that this melding sense of oneness with the universe is the classic mystical experience.
    Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
  • There is no person, no moment, no experience, devoid of the all-pervasive oneness of the Ribbono shel Olam.
    Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024

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“Homology.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homology. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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