Is "connected, simply connected" Redundant?

Here are my definitions of "connected" and "simply connected."

A topological space $X$ is connected if and only if it is not the union of two nonempty disjoint open sets.

A topological space $X$ is simply connected if and only if it is path-connected and has trivial fundamental group (i.e. $\pi_1(X)\simeq\{\mathrm{e}\}$ and $|\pi_0(X)|=1$).

It is a classic and elementary exercise in topology to show that, if a space is path-connected, then it is connected. Thus, if a space is simply connected, then it is connected.

Yet, despite this implication, I've read several cases where the words "connected, simply connected" appear together.

For example, in Kobayashi and Nomizu's Foundations of Differential Geometry, Volume 1, page 252, the following is written: "Let $M$ be a connected, simply connected analytic manifold with an analytic linear connection."

In this paper on $T^3$ actions and this paper on rotationally symmetric manifolds (Links to Journal Storage, also known as JSTOR), they use "connected, simply connected" on their first page. The first of these takes it a step further, referring to "closed, compact, connected, simply connected $4$-manifolds," where a closed manifold (unfortunate terminology) is defined as a compact manifold without boundary.

My question is simple: Why use the words "connected, simply connected" when being simply connected implies connectedness?

Thank you.


I think some authors require that "simply connected" only be applied to spaces that are already known to be path connected, and then the definition is that a path connected space is simply connected if its fundamental group is trivial (with some basepoint). Here is an article from 1955 which explicitly uses some version of this convention.

The problem is that if a space is not path connected then there is even more ambiguity than usual about what you mean by taking its fundamental group - now it really matters which path component you pick a basepoint in.