Morse-Smale flows and homotopy theory

Differentiable dynamical systems

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Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint.

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Groups of Homotopy Spheres: I

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Generalized Poincare's Conjecture in Dimensions Greater Than Four

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On Gradient Dynamical Systems

Stephen T. Smale · Annals of Mathematics · 1961 · 403 citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Differential Equations +10