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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Freedman-Donaldson Theorem
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 23:20:53 GMT
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- In article <640034@otter.hpl.hp.com>, sec@otter.hpl.hp.com (Simon Crouch) writes:
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- > Well, a reasonable place to start is (a) Donaldson and Kronheimer's book
- > "The geometry of four manifolds" and (b) Freedman and Quinn's book
- > "The topology of four manifolds". (Sorry if the titles are inaccurate
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Hmm. I think you really do need the hyphen in "four-manifolds"...
- (I owe this joke to W B R Lickorish, who ought to know)
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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