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Daily Archives: March 18, 2011
The gentle giant … of Mathematics
Every mathematician knows that John Willard Milnor is the stuff of legend. But on March 30, 2003, I realized that the legend of John Milnor had spilled out, already a long time ago, from our rarefied world community of research … Continue reading
