Category
page 1Theorems in topology
Poincaré conjecture
theorem in geometric topology that every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere
Hex
board game
Banach fixed-point theorem
theorem about metric spaces
Jordan curve theorem
theorem stating that a closed curve divides the plane into two regions
Baire category theorem
theorem in topology and functional analysis
Brouwer fixed-point theorem
every continuous function on a compact set has a fixed point
Borsuk–Ulam theorem
theorem
Urysohn's lemma
lemma that a topological space is normal iff any 2 disjoint closed subsets can be separated by a continuous function
Tychonoff's theorem
theorem
metrizable space
topological space that is homeomorphic to a metric space
Kakutani fixed-point theorem
theorem that a function f: S→Pow(S) on a compact nonempty convex subset S⊂ℝⁿ, whose graph is closed and whose image f(x) is nonempty and convex for all x∈S, has a fixed point
geometrization conjecture
theorem that closed 3-manifolds uniquely decompose into pieces with 1 of 8 types of geometric structure
ham sandwich theorem
theorem that any three objects in space can be simultaneously bisected by a plane
Tietze extension theorem
theorem that continuous functions on a closed subset of a normal topological space can be extended to the entire space, preserving boundedness if necessary
Lebesgue number
given a cover of a metric space, a positive real number δ such that any set of diameter smaller than δ is a subset of a member of the cover
Invariance of domain
theorem in topology about homeomorphic subsets of Euclidean space
Schoenflies problem
problem in geometric topology
Bing metrization theorem
Excision theorem
mathematical theorem
Fary–Milnor theorem
three-dimensional smooth curves with small total curvature must be unknotted
Novikov's compact leaf theorem
Result about foliation of compact 3-manifolds
sphere theorem
theorem stating that a complete, simply-connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature taking values in the interval (1, 4] is homeomorphic to the n-sphere