The Algebraist

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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. I enjoyed the book for its setting and world-building. The idea that religious extremists hunted down all AIs to execute them was fascinating. For those not acquainted with large-scale SF, The Algebraist is a perfect place to have your mind blown to smithereens with all that its vast canvas delivers. In particular, if you're used to the less ambitious and necessarily less physically astonishing pleasures of contemporary fiction, you might want to take out insurance on the integrity of your skull. E H Spanier, Review: Characteristic classes, by John Willard Milnor and James D Stasheff, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 81 (5) (1975), 862- 866. S S Khare, On Abel Prize 2011 to John Willard Milnor: a brief description of his significant work, Math. Student 82 (1- 4) (2013), 247- 279.

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M Raussen and J Milnor, Interview with John Milnor, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 59 (3) (2012), 400- 408..verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ J Milnor, Differential Topology Forty-six Years Later, Notices Amer. Math. Soc. 58 (6) (2011), 804- 809. Biography John Milnor's parents were Joseph Willard Milnor (1889- 1949) and Emily Cox (1891- 1973). Joseph Milnor, born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, graduated from Lehigh University in 1912 with first class honours in mathematics. After serving for a year with the General Electric Company in Pittsfield, he entered the engineering department of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1913. Nine years later he was promoted to research engineer and, in 1936, became a transmission engineer. He was appointed consulting engineer in 1943 and retired in the following year.

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Banks is a phenomenon…writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance.”–William GibsonIain Banks came to controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. Consider Phlebas, his first science fiction novel, was published under the name Iain M. Banks in 1987. He is now widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful, innovative and exciting writers of his generation. 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. 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.