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Dennis Sullivan’s early work, despite being strongly motivated by geometric problems, had a strong algebraic nature, certainly much more so than his later work on foliations, Kleinian groups, and dynamics where geometry and analysis play central roles. The aim of this essay is to try to explain to the non-expert some of this early work and indicate some of its impact to the current moment.
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Weinberger, S. (2024). Sullivan’s Juvenilia: Surgery and Algebraic Topology. In: Holden, H., Piene, R. (eds) The Abel Prize 2018-2022. The Abel Prize. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33973-8_27
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