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The early history of Poincaré’s Conjecture. (English) Zbl 0854.01024

Greffe, Jean-Louis (ed.) et al., Henri Poincaré. Science et philosophie: congrès international, mai 14-18, 1994, Nancy, France. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 241-250 (1996).
The development of the ideas of H. Poincaré on the classification of 3-dimensional closed manifolds is studied. The analysis begins in 1892 (the formulation of Poincaré’s hypothesis) and end in 1935.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0838.00010].

MSC:

01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
01A55 History of mathematics in the 19th century

Keywords:

manifolds

Biographic References:

Poincaré, H.
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