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  • BSA Distinguished Lecture: 'Spheres: One Hundred Years of Topology'

    November 8, 2012

    John Milnor, a Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University and co-director of its Institute for Mathematical Sciences, discusses how mathematicians in the 20th century have wrestled with the complexities of topology — the mathematical study of space, dimensions, and transformations — with a focus on the three-dimensional sphere and its role as a source of important mathematical theorems. Read more