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Morse theory
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Etymology
Based on the work of Marston Morse.
Noun
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en mathematics The study of differentiable functions, where the domain of each is a manifold and the codomain is the real line.
March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
the spaces that are used in Einstein’s theory are really pseudo-Riemannian and the relevant Morse theory differs in subtle but important ways.
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