Selected publications in manifold theory
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Revision as of 16:49, 14 December 2010
This is a timeline of important publications in the theory of manifolds, including
- smooth manifolds,
- piecewise-linear manifolds;
- topological manifolds;
- homology manifolds.
See also:
- Chronology at MacTutor
- Geometry and topology at MacTutor
Contents |
1 Up to 1900
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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1868 | Riemann | Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zugrunde liegen |
2 1900 - 1930
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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19?? | ... | ... |
3 1930 - 1960
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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1956 | Milnor | On manifolds homeomorphic to the -sphere
Showed the existence of several smooth structures on a fixed topological manifold: in this case the -sphere. |
4 1961 - 1970
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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1960 | Kervaire | A manifold which does not admit any differentiable structure
Used surgery to find a PL manifold in dimension 10 which admits no smooth structure |
|- |1961 || Smale || Generalized Poincaré's conjecture in dimensions greater than four Proved that every smooth homotopy sphere of dimension 6 or more is homeomorphic to the standard sphere |- |1963 || Kervaire Milnor || Groups of homotopy spheres I Applied surgery theory to the diffeomorphism classification of smooth structures the n-sphere |}
5 1971 - 1980
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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19?? | ... | ... |
6 1981 - 1990
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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1982 | Freedman | The topology of four-dimensional manifolds
Proves the Poincaré conjecture in dimension 4 |
7 1991 - 2000
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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19?? | ... | ... |
8 2001 - present
Year | Authors | Publication and remarks |
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20?? | ... | ... |
9 Discussion
10 Footnotes
- ↑ An interesting fact is that Milnor could easily have made this observation in his 1956 paper [Milnor1956] on $7$-spheres.