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I’m not sure how to introduce a review paper [B]. So rather than commenting on the paper as whole, I will concentrate on my subjective view of just one paragraph—a paragraph which I think I influenced and which ended up influencing me very deeply. A paragraph I am sure Raoul was uncomfortable writing, for at the time he was uncomfortable with his understanding of the underlying mathematics as I have explained it to him [BN]—uncomfortable enough to later rewrite (with Taubes) this bit of mathematics in his own language [BT], making my own work completely obsolete.
The author was partially supported by NSERC grant RGPIN 262178.
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Bar-Natan, D. (2017). On Raoul Bott’s “On Invariants of Manifold” (Commentary on [106], [107]). In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_11
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