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This note is a brief description of my life, both personal and mathematical.
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See J. Willard Milnor, Submarine cable telegraphy, Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 41 (1922) 20–38.
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Some of my adventures (and misadventures) in the mountains are described in the dedication pages of my “Collected Papers III”.
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For more about my mathematical life in Princeton, see: Growing Up in the Old Fine Hall, in “Prospects in Mathematics”, edited by H. Rossi, AMS, 1998.
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One conversation with Thom, in which he described how to “kill” a homotopy class by a surgery construction, was particularly important to me.
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Compare: On the Milnor Conjectures, history, influence, applications, by Albrecht Pfister, Jahresber. Deutsch. Math.-Verein, 102 (2000) 15–41.
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An interview with the Abel Laureate 2011, John Milnor, by C. Skau (NTNU, Norway) and M. Raussen (Aalborg, Denmark) (MP4 368 MB)
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Milnor, J. (2014). Autobiography. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2008-2012. The Abel Prize. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39449-2_18
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