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The story of the higher dimensional poincaré conjecture (what actually happened on the beaches of rio)

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This article is an expanded version of a talk given at the 1989 annual joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society, and the Mathematical Association of America.

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Smale, S. The story of the higher dimensional poincaré conjecture (what actually happened on the beaches of rio). The Mathematical Intelligencer 12, 44–51 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024004

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