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Sunday, May 03, 2009 - Ehud Rattner
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A team of three has solved a 45-year-old problem in the mathematics of topology. The Kervaire invariant problem is "one of the major outstanding problems in algebraic and geometric topology" says fellow mathematician Nick Kuhn, at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "Most people thought it would never be solved in their lifetime," adds Mark Hovey, an algebraic topologist at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.    (source: nature.com)


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