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Imagine that the storyteller has a well-educated and thoughtful mind with which he fills you in on all the details of these new worlds and peculiar personalities, and that he has the skill to paint in words the most breathtaking portraits of our universe on levels from the chemical to the personal. J Hubbard, Review: Dynamics in one complex variable, by John Willard Milnor, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S. ) 38 (4) (2001), 495- 498. Much high-calibre espionage, imaginative intellectualising and mega-ordnance goes off in spectacular fashion during Fassin's travails. So big, so good - Banks even takes on the opportunities to examine the humane and not so humane angles of his characters, revealing their self-deceptions, weakness and complexity. H Bass, John Milnor, the algebraist, in Topological methods in modern mathematics (Houston, TX, 1993), 45- 84. The Algebraist marks a return to the happy hunting grounds of Banks's early SF, replete with all the whizzy boys' toys, wildly improbable extreme sports, damning character assassinations and good-humoured condemnation of all that's wearying about humanity. The Culture, the great civilisation of many of his previous SF novels, is absent, but it's been replaced by a baroque sweep of aliens in capitalist overdrive, providing more than adequate fuel for the author's twin obsessions of sociopolitics and having fun, the two always riding hand in glove, switching with enviable effortlessness between the intimate and the cosmic.

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E H Spanier, Review: Characteristic classes, by John Willard Milnor and James D Stasheff, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (5) (1975), 862- 866. The references [ 4 ] to [ 18 ] give a good indication of the wide influence of Milnor's work up to 1992 (when these articles were written ). The article [ 4 ] is a survey of Milnor's work in algebra, particularly in algebraic K K K-theory, where his work continues to have important influences. The article [ 17 ] looks at nine papers which Milnor had written on differential geometry. It discusses Milnor's theorem, which shows that the total curvature of a knot is at least 4. Among other results discussed are Milnor's result showing that we cannot necessarily "hear the shape" of a 16-dimensional torus, and another result giving upper and lower bounds on the number of distinct words of a given length in a finitely generated subgroup of the fundamental group. It's not the word count that's the problem, although the glut of information dilutes the emotional impact of some of the dramatic turns, but that the author's personality - cheery, optimistic, absurd-aware - is so strong it drowns out chances for genuine pathos. Even in the face of some truly awful atrocities the reader remains aware that events are completely subject to the cosy demands of the narrative, not the other way around.

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In the 1950s Milnor did a substantial amount of work on algebraic topology which is discussed in [ 18 ]. He constructed the classifying space of a topological group and gave a geometric realisation of a semi-simplicial complex. He also studied the Steenrod algebra and its dual, investigated the structure of Hopf algebras, and studied characteristic classes and their relation to mathematical physics. J Sondow, An aroma of paradox and audacity : Milnor's work in differential topology, in Topological methods in modern mathematics (Houston, TX, 1993), 23- 30. E H Brown, Review: Topology from the differentiable viewpoint, by John Willard Milnor, Amer. Math. Monthly 74 (4) (1967), 461.

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This was only one of several papers that Milnor published in 1953. The others were: The characteristics of a vector field on the two-sphere; On total curvatures of closed space curves; and (with Israel Herstein ) An axiomatic approach to measurable utility. Another paper, Link groups, was published in 1954 but it had been submitted for publication in March 1952, over a year before the first of the 1953 papers just mentioned. Milnor writes in the Introduction to Link groups:- He received the Wolf Prize (1989), the Leroy P Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2004), the Leroy P Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2011), the Abel Prize (2011) and in 2014 was made a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.The quadratic formula expresses the solution of the equation ax 2 + bx + c = 0, where a is not zero, in terms of its coefficients a, b and c. With an article, it means an instance of some algebraic structure, like a Lie algebra, an associative algebra, or a vertex operator algebra. M Spivak, A brief report of John Milnor's brief excursions into differential geometry, in Topological methods in modern mathematics (Houston, TX, 1993), 31- 43.

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Without an article, it means a part of algebra, such as linear algebra, elementary algebra (the symbol-manipulation rules taught in elementary courses of mathematics as part of primary and secondary education), or abstract algebra (the study of the algebraic structures for themselves). Sometimes both meanings exist for the same qualifier, as in the sentence: Commutative algebra is the study of commutative rings, which are commutative algebras over the integers.Algebra (from Arabic ‏ الجبر‎ ( al-jabr)'reunion of broken parts, [1] bonesetting' [2]) [ʔldʒbr] ( listen ⓘ) is the study of variables and the rules for manipulating these variables in formulas; [3] it is a unifying thread of almost all of mathematics. [4]



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