08 What is topological dimension?
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This article is from the sci.fractals FAQ, by Michael C. Taylor and Jean-Pierre Louvet with numerous contributions by others.
08 What is topological dimension?
Topological dimension is the "normal" idea of dimension; a
point has topological dimension 0, a line has topological dimension 1,
a surface has topological dimension 2, etc.
For a rigorous definition:
A set has topological dimension 0 if every point has arbitrarily small
neighborhoods whose boundaries do not intersect the set.
A set S has topological dimension k if each point in S has arbitrarily
small neighborhoods whose boundaries meet S in a set of dimension k-1,
and k is the least nonnegative integer for which this holds.
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