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Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds

Author(s): John W. Morgan
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 57-78.
MSC (2000): Primary 57M50, 57M27, 58J35
Posted: October 29, 2004
MathSciNet review: 2115067
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Additional Information:

John W. Morgan
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027
Email: jm@math.columbia.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01045-6
PII: S 0273-0979(04)01045-6
Received by editor(s): June 11, 2004,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 1, 2004
Posted: October 29, 2004
Additional Notes: Written version of a talk presented on January 9, 2004, in the ``Current Events in Mathematics" session at the AMS national meeting in Phoenix, AZ
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society




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