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A survey of symplectic and contact topology. (English) Zbl 1432.57054

Summary: In this article, we give a brief survey of major historical developments in the field of contact and symplectic geometry. This field has grown into an area in its own right due to rapid progress seen in the last five decades. The community of Indian mathematicians working on this field is small but steadily growing. The contribution from Indian mathematicians to this field is noted in the article.

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57R17 Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension
53D99 Symplectic geometry, contact geometry
57-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes
53-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to differential geometry
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