Ricci Flow and the Poincare Conjecture

ISBN-13: 9780821843284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 521 str.

John Morgan; Gang Tian

Opis

For over 100 years the Poincare Conjecture, which proposes a topological characterization of the 3-sphere, has been the central question in topology. Since its formulation, it has been repeatedly attacked, without success, using various topological methods