Euler characteristic

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Euler characteristic (plural Euler characteristics)

  1. (topology, of a topological space) The sum of even-dimensional Betti numbers minus the sum of odd-dimensional ones.
    A polygon's or polyhedron's Euler characteristic is just the number of corners minus the number of edges plus the number of faces.