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Poincaré conjecture: References & Edit History

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Assorted References

major reference
- In topology: Fundamental group
development by Poincaré
- In Henri Poincaré
history of mathematics
- In mathematics: Algebraic topology
Millennium Problem
- In Millennium Problem
solution in four dimensions
- In Michael Freedman

work of

Perelman
- In Grigori Perelman
Smale
- In Stephen Smale
Thurston
- In William Paul Thurston

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William L. Hosch
William L. Hosch was an editor at Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Modified link of Web site: Academia - Poincaré's conjecture proved by G. Perelman by the isomorphism of Minkowski space and the separable complex Hilbert space.	Gloria Lotha	Nov 29, 2024
	Add new Web site: American Mathematical Society - Towards the Poincaré Conjecture and the Classification of 3-Manifolds.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 18, 2024
	Add new Web site: The University of Arizona - Department of Mathematics - Introduction to Poincare Conjecture and the Hamilton-Perelman program.	Yamini Chauhan	Sep 05, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of Chicago - Department of Mathematics - Generalized Poincare's Conjecture in Dimensions Greater Than Four.	Emily Rodriguez	Jul 11, 2024
	Add new Web site: University of NebraskaLincoln - The Poincare Conjecture: Its Past, Present, and Future.	Aakanksha Gaur	May 17, 2024
	Add new Web site: Academia - Poincaré's conjecture proved by G. Perelman by the isomorphism of Minkowski space and the separable complex Hilbert space.	Aakanksha Gaur	Jan 11, 2024
	Add new Web site: Science - The Poincaré Conjecture--Proved.	Gloria Lotha	Sep 21, 2023
	Add new Web site: Clay Mathematics Institute - Poincaré Conjecture.	Gloria Lotha	Jul 14, 2023
	Add new Web site: Story of Mathematics - Henri Poincare and The Chaos Theory.	Aakanksha Gaur	Apr 18, 2023
	Add new Web site: Wolfram MathWorld - Poincare Conjecture.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 16, 2010
	Updated for CMI awarding Millennium Problem prize to Perelman and his rejection of the prize.	Erik Gregersen	Jul 13, 2010
	Added a cross reference to a new article on the Millennium Problems.	William L. Hosch	Jun 09, 2009
	New article added.	William L. Hosch	Apr 13, 2009