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Recently a Technorati search for "Tauber" I subscribe to came up with various references to a Joshua Tauberer who won the Technorati Developers Contest for GovTrack.us.

Well, I discovered from Language Log that Joshua Tauberer is a doctoral student in linguistics at UPenn.

We actually have common interests within linguistics: formal syntax, dependency grammar, etc.

I got in contact with Josh and he pointed out how amusing it would be if we co-authored a paper. It's not entirely out of the question.

by jtauber : Created on Jan. 29, 2005 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : (permalink)

Poincare Project: More on Separation Axioms

We previously defined types of topological spaces called T_0, T_1 and T_2 spaces. I've tried below to capture the distinction between them informally with a diagram.

Recall that a topological space is:

  • T_0 iff for every pair of points x, y there is an open set U such that either x is in U but y is not or y is in U but x is not.
  • T_1 iff for every pair of points x, y there are open sets U and V such that x is in U but y is not and y is in V but x is not.
  • T_2 iff for every pair of points x, y there are open sets U and V such that x is in U, y is in V and U and V are disjoint.

UPDATE: next post

by jtauber : Created on Jan. 29, 2005 : Last modified Feb. 8, 2005 : Categories poincare_project : 0 comments (permalink)