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Calculus / algebra = topology

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 Calculus / algebra = topology.

Roughly, you can take all linear algebra out of calculus via a certain equivalence relation. It is called cohomology. What you end up with is Betti numbers which provide purely topological information.

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 Calculus is topology.

See also Topology, Algebra, and Geometry.