Word: topologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smale case deserves special attention. Smale, an internationally renowned topologist, traveled to Moscow in 1966 to deliver a major address at the 1966 International Congress of Mathematicians and to receive one of the Fields Medals, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of mathematics.S In Moscow, Smale, pointing, as he put it, to "a real danger of a new McCarthyism in America," denounced both "American military intervention in Vietnam" as "horrible" as well as what he termed the "brutal intervening" of Russian troops in Hungary in 1956. 'Never," Smale said, "could I see justification for military intervention, 10 years...
Brauer said he had just received a letter from Bott indicating Bott will probably stay. He did note, however, that since Bott is a topologist, and since Princeton has several other topologists with whom he could work, Bott might well find the Princeton offer attractive...
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