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The Poincaré conjecture is one of the most important problems in the history of Mathematics. The generalized versions of the conjecture for dimensions greater than 3 were proved between 1961 and 1982 by Smale, Stallings, Zeeman and Freedman. However, the original problem remained open for a century until Perelman finally proved it some years ago [66–68].
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Barmak, J.A. (2011). The Andrews–Curtis Conjecture. In: Algebraic Topology of Finite Topological Spaces and Applications. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2032. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22003-6_11
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