hausdorff-space

Hausdorff space

[hous-dawrf, houz-]
noun Mathematics.
a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.

Origin:
named after Felix Hausdorff (1868–1942), German mathematician, who first described it

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