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050 14 QA611|b.O84 2008 
100 1  O'Shea, Donal. 
245 14 The Poincar©Øe conjecture :|bin search of the shape of the
       universe /|cDonal O'Shea. 
250    paperback ed. 
260    New York :|bWalker & Co.,|c2008. 
300    ix, 293 p. :|bill., maps, ports., charts ;|c21 cm. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Cambridge, April 2003 -- The shape of the earth -- 
       Possible worlds -- The shape of the universe -- Euclid's 
       geometry -- The non-Euclideans -- Bernhard Riemann's 
       probationary lecture -- Riemann's legacy -- Klein and 
       Poincar©Øe -- Poincar{acu 
520    Conceived in 1904, the Poincar©Øe conjecture, a puzzle 
       that speaks to the possible shape of the universe and lies
       at the heart of modern topology and geometry, has resisted
       attempts by generations of mathematicians to prove or to 
       disprove i 
600 10 Poincar©Øe, Henri,|d1854-1912. 
600 10 Perelman, Grigori. 
611 20 International Congress of Mathematicians|d(2006 :|cMadrid,
       Spain) 
650  0 Poincar©Øe conjecture. 
650  0 Algebraic topology. 
650  0 Mathematics|xAwards|xHistory. 
650  0 Mathematicians|xHistory. 
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