#john milnor

[electronicsquid]

Mathematician Dr. John Milnor has brought props

(Alfred Eisenstaedt. 1963)

[mathwithicecream]

Why has no one told me about Milnor’s lectures on differential topology until now?

[isomorphismes]

Ø, fold, cusp, swallowtail, butterfly

[thetwomeatmeal]

Milnor’s paper “The Steenrod algebra and its dual” has the phrase “As a biproduct of this proof” and if that’s an accidental misspelling, holy wow is it a good one...

[isomorphismes]

Visualizing Seven-Manifolds

[madddscience]

He was always full of mathematical ideas, not only on game theory, but in geometry and topology as well. However, my most vivid memory of this time is of the many games which were played in the common room. I was introduced to Go and Kriegspiel, and also to an ingenious topological game which we called Nash in honor of the inventor.

John Milnor, "A Nobel prize for John Nash" (1995)