Re: Re: Re: I broke the sum into pieces
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- Subject: [mg105199] Re: [mg105174] Re: [mg105149] Re: I broke the sum into pieces
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:48:16 -0500 (EST)
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On 23 Nov 2009, at 20:52, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > In higher dimensions the conjecture is even more different from what was > implied in this post. It states that a homotopy n-sphere is homomorphic > to an n-sphere. The condition that something is a homotopy n-sphere is a > very strong one - relatively few manifolds are homotopy spheres! To say > that this somehow implies that *all* manifolds "reduce" to spheres is a > comical travesty. In fact the conjecture is like: "if it quacks like a duck, it is a duck". And the "comical travesty" is presenting this as stating that "all birds are ducks". Andrzej Kozlowski
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- Re: Re: I broke the sum into pieces
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>
- Re: I broke the sum into pieces