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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

Author(s): Andrew Ranicki
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (2011), 509-511.
MSC (2010): Primary 57R22, 17A35
Posted: June 14, 2011
Link to article that is the subject of this commentary: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1958), Part 1:87--89.
Link to article that is the subject of this commentary: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 64 (1958), 279-282.
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Additional Information:

Andrew Ranicki
Affiliation: University of Edinburgh
Email: a.ranicki@ed.ac.uk

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-2011-01345-3
PII: S 0273-0979(2011)01345-3
Received by editor(s): May 25, 2011
Posted: June 14, 2011
Copyright of article: Copyright 2011, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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