Classification Theorem - Geometry

Geometry

  • Classification of Euclidean plane isometries
  • Classification theorem of surfaces
    • Classification of two-dimensional closed manifolds
    • Enriques-Kodaira classification of algebraic surfaces (complex dimension two, real dimension four)
    • Nielsen–Thurston classification which characterizes homeomorphisms of a compact surface
  • Thurston's eight model geometries, and the geometrization conjecture

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