Mathematics – History and Overview
Scientific paper
2008-03-02
Mathematics
History and Overview
9 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
In this expository article, we introduce the topological ideas and context central to the Poincare Conjecture. Our account is intended for a general audience, providing intuitive definitions and spatial intuition whenever possible. We define surfaces and their natural generalizations, manifolds. We then discuss the classification of surfaces as it relates to the Poincare and Thurston Geometrization conjectures. Finally, we survey Perelman's results on Ricci flows with surgery.
Kominers Scott D.
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