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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Freedman-Donaldson Theorem
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Sep11023752@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 07:37:52 GMT
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- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- In-Reply-To: hussein@bora.inria.fr's message of 10 Sep 92 12:06:42 GMT
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- Several people have suggested various books aimed at making it easier to
- prepare one to read the Freedman-Donaldson proof (which I haven't read).
- I usually find it somewhat discouraging to be given a list of several
- books to read, each of which will in turn present its own difficulties,
- and to resolve the variations in notation, conventions and points of
- view of various authors, when all I really want is to read a particular
- paper or accomplish a particular task. It is sort of like saying, "You can't
- just DO that. You first have to become someone who DOES that."
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- Maybe the Freedman-Donaldson paper is too hard just to read directly.
- But why not determine that based on an attempt to read it first hand
- and to decide for oneself exactly what one needs to know to read it
- and how to learn what one needs to know?
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- Having said which, perhaps someone can post the reference to the article
- in which the result was first published?
-
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-