History of The Sphere Theorem
Hopf conjectured that a simply connected manifold with pinched sectional curvature is a sphere. In 1951, Harry Rauch showed that a simply connected manifold with curvature in is homeomorphic to a sphere. In 1960, Berger and Klingenberg proved the topological version of the sphere theorem with the optimal pinching constant.
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