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In Chapters 1 and 6 we have seen how to solve a wide variety of problems concerning 2-manifolds. The success of 2-manifold topology is quite surprising when compared with dimension 3, where almost no algorithms are known. To see the contrast more clearly, let us first review what we know about 2-manifolds.
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Stillwell, J. (1993). Three-Dimensional Manifolds. In: Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 72. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4372-4_9
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