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Brown: Researchers Use 'Hole-Y' Math and Machine Learning to Study Cellular Self-Assembly
May 19, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 19 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:

The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and pretzels.

To most of us, the two differ in the way they taste or in their compatibility with morning coffee. But to a topologist, the only difference between the two is that one has a single hole and the other has three. There's no way to stretch or contort a donut to make it look like a pretze . . .

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