The phase rule by the mathematician and physicist Gibbs 1 was commented by Fuller 2 in this way:
The chemist Willard Gibbs developed the phase rule dealing with liquid, gaseous, and crystalline states of substances, apparently not realizing that his phase rule employed the same generalized mathematics as that of Euler’s topological vertexes, faces, and edges [1].
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Fink, J.K. (2009). The Phase Rule. In: Physical Chemistry in Depth. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01014-9_7
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