On Kirby's calculus of links

A Representation of Orientable Combinatorial 3-Manifolds

W. B. R. Lickorish · Annals of Mathematics · 1962 · 592 citations

Differential Topology, Geometry, Orientable Combinatorial 3-Manifolds +8

A calculus for framed links inS 3

Robion Kirby · Inventiones mathematicae · 1978 · 415 citations

Geometry, Knot Theory, Framed Links +2

Modifications and Cobounding Manifolds

Andrew H. Wallace · Canadian Journal of Mathematics · 1960 · 333 citations · Full text

Schubert Calculus, Global Geometry, Geometry +10

Homeomorphisms of non-orientable two-manifolds

W. B. R. Lickorish · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1963 · 151 citations

Geometric Group Theory, Non-orientable Two-manifolds, Geometry +9