'Reasoning Well From Badly Drawn Figures': The Birth of Algebraic Topology

Lettera Matematica 1:13-22 (2013)
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In this paper the emergence of Poincaré’s “analysis situs” is described by means of an overview of the original memoir and its supplements. In particular, the genesis of the celebrated “Poincaré conjecture” is discussed.

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