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Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds
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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
  • Received by editor(s): June 11, 2004
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: September 1, 2004
  • Published electronically: 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 2004 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 42 (2005), 57-78
  • MSC (2000): Primary 57M50, 57M27, 58J35
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01045-6
  • MathSciNet review: 2115067