Introduction

Louis Funar () and Athanase Papadopoulos ()
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Louis Funar: University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Institut Fourier
Athanase Papadopoulos: CNRS and University of Strasbourg, Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée

Chapter Chapter 1 in Essays on Topology, 2025, pp 1-11 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This is an Introduction to the book Essays in Geometry, a collection of articles dedicated to Valentin Poénaru. The Introduction contains an overview of the whole book. It gives an idea of the content of each chapter and at the same time of the spectrum of subjects of interest of Poénaru. The topics discussed include topology, geometry, combinatorial group theory, history and philosophy of mathematics, mathematical physics. Several chapters are of autobiographical nature, written by Poénaru himself.

Keywords: Topology; Geometry; Combinatorial group theory; History of mathematics; and philosophy of mathematics; Biographical essays; Poincaré conjecture; Schenflies conjecture; Valentin Poénaru (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-81414-3_1

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