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Continua

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Dynamic Topology

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A compact connected set is called a continuum.

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Whyburn, G., Duda, E. (1979). Continua. In: Dynamic Topology. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6262-3_12

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