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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Projective plane: a history

Klaus Volkert

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Abstract

We present the early history of projective space in dimensions two and three from a topological point of view (in the last third of the 19th century). In particular we study different models of these intriguing manifolds and the question of their topological invariants.

Keywords

projective plane, projective space, history of topology

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 01A55, 01A60

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