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John Milnor

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Selected writings

On exotic 7-spheres:

• John Milnor, On manifolds homeomorphic to the 7-sphere, Annals of Mathematics 64 (2): 399–405 (1956) (pdf, doi:10.1142/9789812836878_0001)

On Hopf algebras:

• John Milnor, John Moore, On the structure of Hopf algebras, Annals of Math. 81 (1965), 211-264 (doi:10.2307/1970615, pdf)

On the cobordism ring:

• John Milnor, On the cobordism ring ­$\Omega^\bullet$ and a complex analogue, Amer. J. Math. 82 (1960), 505–521 (jstor:2372970)

On characteristic classes:

• John Milnor, Jim Stasheff, Characteristic classes, Princeton Univ. Press (1974) (ISBN:9780691081229, doi:10.1515/9781400881826, pdf)

On invariant Riemannian metrics on (compact) Lie groups:

• John Milnor, Curvatures of left invariant metrics on Lie groups, Advances in Mathematics, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 1976, Pages 293-329 (doi:10.1016/S0001-8708(76)80002-3)

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On differential topology:

• John Milnor, Topology from the differential viewpoint, Princeton University Press, 1997. (ISBN:9780691048338, pdf)

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