A brief history of contact geometry and topology.

DOI10.1016/S0723-0869(01)80014-1zbMath1048.53001WikidataQ60651037 ScholiaQ60651037MaRDI QIDQ5937436

Hansjörg Geiges

Publication date: 2001

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

geodesic flowBrieskorn manifoldsCarnot cyclesGray stabilityHamiltonian mechanicsMoser trickspace of contact elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) History of differential geometry (53-03) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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