Commentary on “On the parallelizability of the spheres” by R. Bott and J. Milnor and “On the nonexistence of elements of Hopf invariant one” by J. F. Adams
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- Andrew Ranicki
- Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
- MR Author ID: 144725
- Email: a.ranicki@ed.ac.uk
- Received by editor(s): May 25, 2011
- Published electronically: June 14, 2011
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The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 509-511
- MSC (2010): Primary 57R22, 17A35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01345-3
- MathSciNet review: 2823019