# Metadata Source URL:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology Topics:: #mathematic --- # Topology - Wikipedia ## Highlights > [!quote]+ Updated on 231022_152433 > > In mathematics, topology (from the Greek words τόπος, 'place, location', and λόγος, 'study') is concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself