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Re:What Is a Manifold? by username90 on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:32AM (#19658767)
Things with edges, like disks and finite lines.
Re:What Is a Manifold? by math_and_stuff on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:58AM (#19659157)
Both of those are typically referred to as manifolds with boundary. The setting of Stokes Theorem is often manifolds with boundary.
Re:What Is a Manifold? by hansen on Sunday April 14, 2019 @09:06AM (#19659198)
Mathematicians messed up here… A manifold with boundary is not a manifold. But a manifold is a manifold with boundary (the empty set).
Re:What Is a Manifold? by JadeNB on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:14PM (#19668025)
> Mathematicians messed up here… A manifold with boundary is not a manifold. But a manifold is a manifold with boundary (the empty set).

It depends on which mathematicians! Plenty of differential geometers allow manifolds to have boundary, and say "closed manifold" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_manifold) to emphasise when they are dealing with a (compact) manifold without boundary (or, as you point out, really a manifold whose boundary is empty).

Re:What Is a Manifold? by Topolomancer on Sunday April 14, 2019 @10:23AM (#19659569)
I thought a manifold with a boundary would still be a manifold, but its boundary has to satisfy a dimensionality condition. For example, the 2D disk is a 2-manifold with a 1-dimensional boundary. Strictly speaking, this is a _topological manifold with a boundary_, though.
Re:What Is a Manifold? by srean on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:01AM (#19658883)
Nothing wrong with them, they can be manifolds.