61

This number is a prime.

Single Curio View:   (Seek other curios for this number)
The great Topologist John Milnor had his conjecture disproved by M. Mahowald, who found S(61), the set of all oriented diffeomorphism classes of closed smooth homotopy 61-spheres is the trivial group. Reference: "Differential Toplogy Forty-Six Years Later", John Milnor, Notice of the AMS, June/July 2011, pp.804-809. [Post]

Submitted: 2011-07-23 21:15:01;   Last Modified: 2011-08-31 13:00:52.
Printed from the PrimePages <t5k.org> © G. L. Honaker and Chris K. Caldwell