Geometrization conjecture
Conjetura de Thurston
- Date
- c. 1982 · confidence low
- Place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- William Thurston
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
William Thurston's conjecture that every closed three-dimensional manifold can be canonically decomposed into pieces, each carrying one of eight possible geometric structures.
What it led to
- Geometrization programme for three-dimensional manifolds
- Framework that includes the Poincaré conjecture as a special case
- Complete proof by Grigori Perelman in 2002-2003