In mathematics, geometry and topology is an umbrella term for the historically distinct disciplines of geometry and topology, as general frameworks allow both disciplines to be manipulated uniformly, most visibly in local to global theorems in Riemannian geometry, and results like the Gauss–Bonnet theorem and Chern–Weil theory.
[clarification needed] It is also the title of a journal Geometry & Topology that covers these topics.
The terms are not used completely consistently: symplectic manifolds are a boundary case, and coarse geometry is global, not local.
By Darboux's theorem, a symplectic manifold has no local structure, which suggests that their study be called topology.
By contrast, the space of symplectic structures on a manifold form a continuous moduli, which suggests that their study be called geometry.