Poincaré's stated motivations for topology

DOI10.1007/s00407-020-00247-yzbMath1455.01014OpenAlexW3009857649MaRDI QIDQ776908

Chang Wang, Lizhen Ji

Publication date: 13 July 2020

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-020-00247-y

zbMATH Keywords

topologycrystallographyfinite and discrete subgroups of Lie groupsLudwig Bieberbach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03) History of algebraic topology (55-03)

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