The Collaborative International Dictionary
Topologist \To*pol"o*gist\, n. a mathematician specializing in topology. ``A topologist is someone who doesn't know the difference between a donut and a coffee cup.''
Wiktionary
n. A mathematician who specializes in topology.
Usage examples of "topologist".
But he was a good mathematician and a fair topologist, and we published most of his submissions, so that he and I remained superficially friendly.
Hollis Late in the afternoon of an ugly fall day, a forty-year-old topologist, employed to teach mathematics at a university he despised, bored by his students and frightened that he had done everything of significance in his life that he would ever do, blundered head-down into a group of students handing out flowers and handbills.
In a few minutes, the topologist had cobbled up a container which defied the eye to define its exact shape, but which most often seemed to be a lumpy cylinder.
Deftly the topologist withdrew the tiny sword, pried off the top, and shook Mr.
By talking to him, the topologist was able to keep from going quite mad.
Even today, within mathematics, a topologist and an expert in number theory encounter very grave difficulties in communication.
The topologists know surfaces with as many as a thousand singularities, and they have properties that make the Mobius band and the Klein bottle both look simple.
The universities want combinatorics people and physicists and topologists these days.
Now, if you join the edges of two mirror-image Moebius bands it makes what topologists call a Klein Bottle.