Math of Transfinite Donuts in 3-D Space

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Has anyone ever developed any sort of math involving donuts with an infinite number of holes? By donut, I mean a two-dimensional closed surface, curved in 3-space, with one 'hole'. Are there any results, of any kind, for 2-D donuts in 3-D space, with infinite number of holes?
 
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I think they're about as well understood as the donut with one hole. Riemann surfaces are one of the most thoroughly understood branches of mathematics.
 
You mean something like [tex]S\times I[/tex], where S is the unit disk with the rational points inside a circle of radius 1/2 centered at the origin deleted?
 
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Sine Nomine said:
You mean something like [tex]S\times I[/tex], where S is the unit disk with the rational points inside a circle of radius 1/2 centered at the origin deleted?

Not sure how that example is a torus.

I was thinking more of the long line Cartesian product the circle with uncountably many holes removed.