During the summer of 1965, an informal seminar in geometric topology was held at the University of Wisconsin under the direction of Professor Bing. Twenty-five of these lectures are included in this study, among them Professor Bing's lecture describing the recent attacks of Haken and Poincare on the Poincare conjectures, and sketching a proof of Haken's main result.
During the summer of 1965, an informal seminar in geometric topology was held at the University of Wisconsin under the direction of Professor Bing....
Mathematician R.H. Bing laid the foundation for a number of areas of topology. Many of his papers have continued to serve as a source of major theoretical developments and concrete applications. One example was Michael H. Freedman's use of Bing's Shrinking Criterion to solve the four-dimensional Poincare Conjecture. This two-volume set brings together over 100 of Bing's research, expository and miscellaneous papers. These works range over a variety of topics in topology, including the topology of manifolds, decomposition spaces, continua, metrization, general topology, and geometric topology....
Mathematician R.H. Bing laid the foundation for a number of areas of topology. Many of his papers have continued to serve as a source of major theoret...
