Foundational Essays on Topological Manifolds, Smoothings, and Triangulations
Since Poincaré''s time, topologists have been most concerned with three species of manifold. The most primitive of these--the TOP manifolds--remained rather mysterious until 1968, when Kirby discovered his now famous torus unfurling device. A period of rapid progress with TOP manifolds ensued, including, in 1969, Siebenmann''s refutation of the Hauptvermutung and the Triangulation Conjecture. Here...
Since Poincaré''s time, topologists have been most concerned with three species of manifold. The most primitive of these--the TOP manifolds--remained rather mysterious until 1968, when Kirby discovered his now famous torus unfurling device. A period of rapid progress with TOP manifolds ensued, including, in 1969, Siebenmann''s refutation of the Hauptvermutung and the Triangulation Conjecture. Here...
