Michel André Kervaire (26 April 1927 – 19 November 2007) was a French mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra.
Introducing what came to be called the Kervaire invariant:
On homotopy spheres and introducing Kervaire-Milnor groups:
On Pontryagin's theorem (the unstable and framed version of the Pontryagin-Thom construction) and its application to the computation of stable homotopy groups of spheres:
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