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An Elementary proof of the Jordan Separation Theorem

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Emil Sargsyan, UC Davis
Location: 593 Kerr
Start time: Thu, Dec 16 2004, 12:10PM

I will give a simplified version, due to J.W. Alexander, of Oswald Veblen's first proof of Jordan's conjecture, which says that every simple closed curve separates the plane into two connected regions.