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A screen showing pictures of the winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics during a news conference by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden October 4, 2016. From left: David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz.   TT News Agency/Anders Wiklund/via REUTERS       ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN. NO COMMERCIAL SALES.

Take a toilet roll and a doughnut — they'd have the same topology. Image:  TT News Agency/Anders Wiklund/via REUTERS

Lindsay Dodgson
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