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Introduction to differentiable manifolds, second edition. He received the frank nelson cole prize in 1960 and was a member of the bourbaki group. He made a number of conjectures in diophantine geometry. May 19, 1927 september 12, 2005 was a frenchamerican mathematician and activist who taught at yale university for most of his career.
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