manifolds and cobordisms
cobordism theory, Introduction
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The proof of the geometrization conjecture implies that of
The conjecture was stated by William Thurston in 1982. The Ricci flow-strategy for the proof was devised by Richard Hamilton and the remaining technical problem of controlling the pinching was finally solved by Grigori Perelman.
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