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Smooth manifold
Set
| context | $\langle M,T\rangle$ … second-countable Hausdorff space |
| context | $n\in \mathbb N$ |
| definiendum | $\langle M,A\rangle\in$ it |
| postulate | $A$ maximal in atlas($\langle M,T\rangle,n$) |
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Effectively, a smooth manifold would be given by providing any atlas. But then, due to the redundancy of some charts on small open sets, different atlases give rise to equivalent mathematical objects and so a smooth manifold is defined as the biggest and hence unique one amongst those objects.
Reference
Wikipedia: Differentiable manifold
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