Timeline for Applications of homotopy groups of spheres
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| Mar 4, 2010 at 20:08 | vote | accept | veit79 | ||
| Feb 26, 2010 at 22:56 | comment | added | Marty | I don't think there's an analogy between homotopy groups of spheres and the distribution of primes in any way. Yes, they both yield some numbers which are not very well understood -- but you can't say that any two poorly understood sequences are analogous, just because they're both poorly understood! So I think these questions are not that well-motivated, at least by the middle paragraph above. On the other hand, I too wonder about questions like "what are homotopy groups of spheres good for, outside of the easy and obviously useful cases?" | |
| Feb 26, 2010 at 14:53 | answer | added | Ryan Budney | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 26, 2010 at 10:46 | answer | added | HenrikRüping | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 26, 2010 at 10:01 | history | asked | veit79 | CC BY-SA 2.5 |