This is a timeline of important publications in the theory of manifolds, including
See also:
1 Up to 1900
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2 1900 - 1930
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3 1930 - 1960
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4 1961 - 1970
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|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
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|1963 || Kervaire Milnor || Groups of homotopy spheres I
Applied surgery theory to the diffeomorphism classification of smooth structures the n-sphere
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5 1971 - 1980
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6 1981 - 1990
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7 1991 - 2000
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8 2001 - present
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9 Discussion
- ↑ An interesting fact is that Milnor could easily have made this observation in his 1956 paper [Milnor1956] on $7$-spheres.
11 References