
The field of
topology, which saw massive development in the 20th century, is in a technical sense a type of
transformation geometry, in which transformations are
homeomorphisms. This has often been expressed in the form of the dictum 'topology is rubber-sheet geometry'. Contemporary
geometric topology and
differential topology, and particular subfields such as
Morse theory, would be counted by most mathematicians as part of geometry.
Algebraic topology and
general topology have gone their own ways.
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