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History of "Shape of the Universe"

Please add any evidence of earlier usage, or make other appropriate corrections.

This was popularised by Boud Roukema starting in February 2002, to emphasize that both topology and curvature are relevant to the "shape" of the Universe.

• thread: https://web.archive.org/web/20020922150911/http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl:80/sympa/shape-univ/2002-02/thrd1.html
  • 21 Feb 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20020501062752/http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl:80/sympa/shape-univ/2002-02/msg00000.html
  • 22 Feb 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20060929220654/http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/shape-univ/2002-02/msg00001.html
  • 28 Feb 2002: https://web.archive.org/web/20030526223826/http://www.astro.uni.torun.pl/sympa/shape-univ/2002-02/msg00002.html
• 4 Oct 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shape_of_the_universe&oldid=335740

Usage that hides the topological component of "shape" started later:

• 2006 or later by Smoot: https://web.archive.org/web/20070703101525/http://aether.lbl.gov/press.html

-- BoudRoukema - 08 Dec 2023