Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
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Shop Series: The Intake Manifold

OBJECTIVE: Wet flow, pressure excursions, port volume, runner length, plenum volume—all these figure into an engine's overall efficiency. But there's more… Sometimes theory is neat, but sometimes it ...
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THETA FUNCTIONS ON THE KODAIRA-THURSTON MANIFOLD

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 362, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2010), pp. 897-932 (36 pages) The Kodaira-Thurston manifold M is a compact, 4-dimensional nilmanifold which is symplectic ...
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The Equilibrium Manifold Keeps the Memory of Individual Demand Functions

Vol. 24, No. 3, General Equilibrium, Incomplete Markets and Sunspots: A Symposium in Honor of David Cass (Oct., 2004), pp. 493-501 (9 pages) It is shown that the property that the equilibrium manifold ...