Milnor
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
A city in North Dakota.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
John Milnor commented that sometimes the errors in false proofs can be "rather subtle and difficult to detect." citation Work on the conjecture improved understanding of 3-manifolds.
Jamestown College, Arvilla Academy and the Milnor Normal School were all partially funded by the Dakota Territory to provide teacher training in the early days of the region.
Via Milnor, Kahn and Antonelli, however, it is known that provided n > 6, Diff(S n ) does not have the homotopy-type of a finite CW-complex.
Milnor 's exotic spheres show that the smooth Poincaré conjecture is false in dimension seven, for example.