Poincaré Conjecture/Historical Note

Theorem

The Poincaré Conjecture was first posed in $1904$ by Jules Henri Poincaré.

It was finally resolved by the work of Grigori Perelman, who solved Thurston's Geometrization Conjecture in $2003$ (although some sources say $2004$).

Sources

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Millennium Prize problems