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The Mathematical Heritage of Henri Poincaré, Part 1
About this Title
Felix E. Browder, Editor
Publication: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics
Publication Year:
1983; Volume 39.1
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-1448-2 (print); 978-0-8218-9329-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/pspum/039.1
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Front/Back Matter
Geometry
- Shing-Shen Chern – Web geometry
- Jun-Ichi Igusa – Problems on Abelian functions at the time of Poincaré and some at present
- John Milnor – Hyperbolic geometry: The first 150 years
- Ngaiming Mok and Shing-Tung Yau – Completeness of the Kähler-Einstein metric on bounded domains and the characterization of domains of holomorphy by curvature conditions [MR 720056]
- Alan Weinstein – Symplectic geometry
Topology
- J. Frank Adams – Graem Segal’s Burnside ring conjecture
- William P. Thurston – Three dimensional manifolds, Kleinian groups and hyperbolic geometry
Riemann surfaces, discontinuous groups and Lie groups
- Lipman Bers – Finite dimenstional Teichmüller spaces and generalizations
- Wilfried Schmid – Poincaré and Lie groups
- Dennis Sullivan – Discrete conformal groups and measurable dynamics
Several complex variables
- Michael Beals, Charles Fefferman and Robert Grossman – Strictly pseudoconvex domains in $\mathbf {C}^n$
- Phillip A. Griffiths – Poincaré and algebraic geometry
- Roger Penrose – Physical space-time and nonrealizable CR-structures
- R. O. Wells, Jr. – The Cauchy-Riemann equations and differential geometry