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Working and playing with the 2-disk. (English) Zbl 0924.57026

Browder, Felix E. (ed.), Mathematics into the twenty-first century. Proceedings of the AMS centennial symposium, Providence, RI, USA, August 8–12, 1988. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. Am. Math. Soc. Centen. Publ. 2, 37-47 (1992).
This article is the written form of a lecture held by the author at the AMS centennial symposium. He recalls classical results of geometric topology in the 20th century, particularly in dimensions 2, 3 and 4.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00016].

MSC:

57N99 Topological manifolds
30C30 Schwarz-Christoffel-type mappings
30C35 General theory of conformal mappings
57M99 General low-dimensional topology
57N35 Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds
57N45 Flatness and tameness of topological manifolds
57N50 \(S^{n-1}\subset E^n\), Schoenflies problem
57R80 \(h\)- and \(s\)-cobordism
57R65 Surgery and handlebodies
57Q25 Comparison of PL-structures: classification, Hauptvermutung
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