Voevodsky’s proof of Milnor’s conjecture

Morel, F.

doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-98-00745-9

Voevodsky's proof of Milnor's conjecture

Author: F. Morel
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
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Abstract: 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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