NMSU • BLAST-2009
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, ...
Next F.E.J. Linton • Wesleyan Univ. Math/CS Emeritus

  Billed to the organisers as “a short talk about a peculiar topological space that Peter Johnstone, Bob Paré and I used some 30 years ago to solve a topoidal problem.”
“Peculiar”It has a discrete, dense, open subset, whose (closed) complement is a discrete subspace as well, yet ...
“Topoidal problem”... the whole space admits a double cover with no continuous global section.