Listing number
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
These numbers were introduced by the 19th-century mathematician Johann Benedict Listing, and later given this name by Charles Sanders Peirce.
Noun[edit]
Listing number (plural Listing numbers)
- (mathematics) Any of four topological invariants associated with a topological space. The smallest Listing number counts the number of connected components of a space, and is thus equivalent to the zeroth Betti number.