OFFSET
1,7
COMMENTS
|bP_(n+1)| in 1961 Kervaire-Milnor theorem.
|b_n| in Milnor 2011 Table 2 (explained in Further Details p. 807). - Jonathan Sondow, Jun 16 2011
Named after the Swiss mathematician Jacob Bernoulli (1655-1705), the French mathematician Michel André Kervaire (1927-2007) and the American mathematician John Willard Milnor (b. 1931). - Amiram Eldar, Jun 22 2021
LINKS
Michel A. Kervaire and John W. Milnor, Groups of homotopy spheres: I, December 1961.
Michel A. Kervaire and John W. Milnor, Groups of homotopy spheres: I, Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, Vol. 77, No. 3 (1963), pp. 504-537; alternative link.
John W. Milnor, Differential Topology Forty-six Years Later, Notices Amer. Math. Soc., Vol. 58, No. 6 (2011), pp. 804-809.
John W. Milnor, Spheres, Abel Prize lecture (video), 2011.
Georgios Dimitroglou Rizell and Jonathan David Evans, Exotic spheres and the topology of symplectomorphism groups, J. Topol., Vol. 8, No. 2 (2015), pp. 586-602.
Wikipedia, Exotic sphere.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Paul Muljadi, Mar 11 2011
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Jonathan Sondow, Jun 16 2011.
STATUS
approved