The Poincaré conjecture
Subtitle: Clay Research Conference, resolution of the Poincaré conjecture, Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, June 8-9, 2010
By: James Carlson, editor
Series: Clay mathematics proceedings -- volume 19
Publisher: American Mathematical Society; Clay Mathematics Institute
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Providence, RI; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780821898659
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Poincaré conjecture; Congresses; Three-manifolds (Topology); Manifolds (Mathematics); Differential geometry -- Research exposition (monographs, survey articles); Differential geometry -- Global differential geometry -- Geometric evolution equations (mean curvature flow, Ricci flow, etc.).; Differential geometry -- Global differential geometry -- None of the above, but in this section; Differential geometry -- Symplectic geometry, contact geometry -- Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds; Manifolds and cell complexes -- Research exposition (monographs, survey articles)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Geometry in 2, 3 and 4 dimensions / Michael Atiyah; title: Years of topology : work stimulated by poincare's approach to classifying manifolds / John Morgan; title: The evolution of geometric structures on 3-manifolds / Curtis McMullen; title: Invariants of manifolds and the classication problem / Simon Donaldson; title: Volumes of hyperbolic 3-manifolds / David Gabai; title: Manifolds : where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / Mikhail Gromov; title: Geometric analysis on 4-manifolds / Gang Tian.