Contents - 2013

• Fake lens spaces
  Tibor Macko
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• Lens spaces in dimension three: a history
  Klaus Volkert
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• Poincaré's cube manifolds
  Klaus Volkert
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• Poincaré's homology sphere
  Klaus Volkert
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• Projective plane: a history
  Klaus Volkert
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• Space forms: a history
  Klaus Volkert
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• 1-manifolds
  Oleg Viro
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Lens spaces in dimension three: a history

Klaus Volkert

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Abstract

In this article we present the early history of 3-dimensional lens spaces from their first appearance in Tietze’s paper (1908) to the late 1930's including the problem of their classification.

Keywords

lens space, history of topology

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 01A55, 01A60

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