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We have seen (chap. I, §2) that Poincaré already had a conception of n-dimensional manifolds of class Cr (r integer ≥ 1 or ∞) and of analytic manifolds (sometimes called Cw manifolds) which was essentially the modern one.
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Dieudonné, J. (2009). The Beginnings of Differential Topology. In: A History of Algebraic and Differential Topology, 1900 - 1960. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4907-4_4
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