Three-manifolds. Classical results (Q1912501)

This is a very good survey on the topology of 3-manifolds. The author describes in a very accessible way many questions of the theory starting from the very beginning and ending up with many problems of recent research. We give here the list of chapters of the article: (1) Manifolds; (2) Methods of representing 3-manifolds (Heegaard splittings and diagrams); (3) The surfaces in 3-manifolds; (4) Seifert manifolds; (5) Algorithmical issues of the topology of 3-manifolds; (6) Haken manifolds; (7) Geometrical manifolds.