Summary
A pair of elementary exercises, one from topology, the other from group theory are such that if one replaces three words in the topology problem, you get the group theory problem and vice-versa. This suggests connections between the two that are explored here.
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Timothy Kohl
Timothy Kohl ([email protected]) received a Ph.D. from SUNY Albany (1996), specializing in Hopf-Galois theory. Since 1998 he has been in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University as both a lecturer and the department's IT administrator.