Early settlers of Taiwan in the 17th century came from coastal communities in China, and through the process of incense division [fen-hsiang]. brought images of Ma-tsu with them from mainland mother temples.

Poincaré proved that Betti numbers are invariants and used them to extend Euler's polyhedral formula to higher dimensional spaces.

[…] the same three dimensions accommodate distinctions not merely between 'interior' and 'exterior' cases but also between them (and 'posterior' cases) and superessives ('superior' cases).

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