top | item 45793587

Hairy Ball Theorem

2 points| greekanalyst | 4 months ago |en.wikipedia.org

1 comment

order

dlcarrier|4 months ago

This article has one of my favorite concatenations of jargon into a single sentence:

    In this regard, it follows that for any compact regular 2-dimensional manifold with non-zero Euler characteristic, any continuous tangent vector field has at least one zero.
Those are all words most people recognize, but without experience in topology, it is completely incomprehensible.