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In the end of 1989 at the invitation of George R. Sell (University of Minnesota), I visited the US for the first time and spent 2 months in Minneapolis. Before coming back to Kiev, I gave a talk at John Milnor’s seminar and then, as did a number of mathematicians who visited New York City at that time, stayed for a few days at Dennis Sullivan’s apartment in New York City, and heard from my host a phrase that sounded more or less as follows: Lived as all others, but all of a sudden woke up famous.
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This is how we used to call informal regular gatherings of students interested in mathematics.
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Blokh, A.M., Sharkovsky, O.M. (2022). Historical Remarks. In: Sharkovsky Ordering. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99125-8_5
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