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Voevodsky’s proof of Milnor’s conjecture
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We give an overview of Voevodsky’s recent proof of Milnor’s conjecture on the $\mathrm {mod} 2$ Galois cohomology of fields of characteristic $\not =2$.
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Additional Information
  • F. Morel
  • Affiliation: U.R.A. 169 du C.N.R.S., École Polytechnique, France
  • Email: morel@math.polytechnique.fr
  • Received by editor(s): October 7, 1997
  • Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 25, 1998
  • © Copyright 1998 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 (1998), 123-143
  • MSC (1991): Primary 12G05, 14C25, 55P42, 55S10, 57R20
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00745-9
  • MathSciNet review: 1600334