Manifold Atlas: About

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The mission of the Manifold Atlas is to empower and engage topologists, geometers, historians and philosphers to organize and create knowledge about manifolds and the study of manifolds: in particular constructions and invariants and problems but also general and historical information.

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1 “What is a manifold"

We use the term manifold broadly to mean any second countable Hausdorff space which is locally Euclidean of a fixed dimension and which may, or may not, be equipped with extra structures: for a precise definition see the definition of “manifold".

2 Scientific goals and structure

  • The Manifold Atlas has two main aims:
    • to catalyse the organisation and creation of knowledge about manifolds via the world wide web,
    • to serve as a journal standard, citable reference for the study of manifolds.
  • Thus there are two sorts of pages in the Atlas: evolving pages and static articles.
  • Evolving pages are continually open to improvement and expansion but are not strongly scientifically citable.
  • Static articles will have been approved by the editorial board after a rigorous editorial process.
    • Static articles will be instantly recognisable via the blue approval message and the suffix /nth Edition:
    • Static articles will be edit-protected and their hard copies serve as scientifically citable documents: they will be the published articles of the Atlas.

3 Writing in the Manifold Atlas

  • The Manifold Atlas supports two types of pages: open-editing pages and author-based pages.
  • Open-editing pages can be edited openly by any registered user.
  • Author-based pages are written by a single author or team of authors.
  • All content in the Manifold Atlas is freely available on the world wide web as described on the user rights page.

4 Staff

5 Affiliation

6 Platform

The platform for the Manifold Atlas is MediaWiki: special local features were developed by Daniel Müllner.

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