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In his paper [109], which appeared in 1866, Jordan described one of the first attempts to prove a theorem on the topological classification of surfaces, that is, up to homeomorphisms.
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Popescu-Pampu, P. (2016). Jordan and the Topological Classification. In: What is the Genus?. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2162. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42312-8_18
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