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Mathematicians whose works were criticized by contemporaries but became widely accepted later
Higher homotopy groups were defined by Eduard Čech in 1932 in a paper for the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich, but Alexandroff and Hopf thought that since they were abelian, they we …