Timeline for Justifying a theory by a seemingly unrelated example
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| Jan 20, 2010 at 11:09 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Yet certainly there were many topologists trying to prove the Poincaré conjecture by purely topological means. | |
| Dec 13, 2009 at 21:39 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | Many topologists were arguing the reverse -- the Poincare conjecture is naturally an analytic statement. It's a misleading coincidence (due to Moise) that you can think of it as a purely topological or combinatorial statement. Classification of 2-manifolds (uniformization) was first proven using analysis. The high-dimensional Poincare conjecture (Smale) used basics of ODEs, if anything it was remarkable for how little analysis his proof used. | |
| Dec 13, 2009 at 17:06 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Anton Geraschenko | ||
| Dec 13, 2009 at 15:08 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |