High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In mathematics, the Poincare duality theorem, named after Henri Poincare, is a basic result on the structure of the homology and cohomology groups of manifolds.A form of Poincare duality was first stated, without proof, by Henri Poincare in 1893. It was stated in terms of Betti numbers: The kth and (n – k) th Betti numbers of a closed (i.e. compact and without boundary) orientable n-manifold are equal. The cohomology concept was at that time about 40 years from being clarified. In his 1895 paper Analysis Situs, Poincare tried to prove the theorem using topological intersection theory, which he had invented. Criticism of his work by Poul Heegaard led him to realize that his proof was seriously flawed. In the first two complements to Analysis Situs, Poincare gave a new proof in terms of dual triangulations.

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