Milnor, John Towards the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds. (English) Zbl 1168.57303 Notices Am. Math. Soc. 50, No. 10, 1226-1233 (2003). Summary: This article surveys a century of progress on the problem of classifiying compact, three-dimensional manifolds. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 15 Documents MSC: 57M40 Characterizations of the Euclidean \(3\)-space and the \(3\)-sphere (MSC2010) 53C21 Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{J. Milnor}, Notices Am. Math. Soc. 50, No. 10, 1226--1233 (2003; Zbl 1168.57303) Full Text: Link