The story of the higher dimensional Poincaré conjecture (what actually happened on the beaches of Rio)

DOI10.1007/BF03024004zbMath0703.57001WikidataQ123285297 ScholiaQ123285297MaRDI QIDQ916145

Stephen Smale

Publication date: 1990

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

history of the proof of the Poincaré conjecture in dimension \(\geq 5\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03)

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