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 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
  • By sheer virtue of my existence, I was deployed here with the task of disrupting the homogeneity of these jam sessions.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
  • The homogeneity is intended to equal the playing field while allowing independent management strategies to still play a part as the machines are pushed to the limit over the course of the Earth’s complete rotation on its axis.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Token equivalence could raise new questions about taxation, investor protections, and international jurisdictional conflicts.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
  • There’s not an equivalence, even remotely, between him and President Biden.
    Mike Lillis, The Hill, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 5 Jul. 2025.

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