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evert
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e·vert (-vûrt)
v.
To turn inside out or outward.

evert [e-vert´]
to turn inside out; to turn outward.

evert
to turn inside out; to turn outward.


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The trouble with these eversions, however, was that they consisted of a series of stages that didn't lead automatically from one to the next.
This strategy allowed him to introduce corrugations--wavy bends--to make these shapes extremely pliable, gaining insights into how immersions maintain their smoothness during transformations such as eversions.
In 1959, Smale, then a graduate student, proved an abstract theorem that indirectly leads to the proposition making sphere eversions possible.
 
 
 
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