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

Morgan, John

doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01045-6

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

Author: 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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