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Timeline for Proofs of Bott periodicity

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Apr 30, 2016 at 14:09 comment added Tom Mrowka I recently learned from my colleague Richard Melrose that there is a much cleaner proof of Kuiper's theorem due to Mityagin "The homotopy structure of the linear group of a Banach space". See also RBM's nice notes. math.mit.edu/~rbm/18-102-Sp16/Chapter3.pdf
Mar 8, 2011 at 3:27 comment added David Roberts Ah, Kuiper's theorem. My PhD supervisor said that it's mysterious as to where the proof came from...
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