A topic within Topology, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Mathematics.
2 works
William P. Thurston
Argues that most three-manifolds carry one of eight geometric structures, and develops hyperbolic geometry as the generic and richest of them rather than as a special case.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Grigori Perelman
Introduces an entropy functional that is monotonic under Ricci flow to rule out the formation of certain singularities, the key technical step toward Thurston's geometrization conjecture and hence the Poincare conjecture.
link checked 17 Sept 2026