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I've uploaded a photo I took of Sullivan giving a lecture at MSRI last May. I believe it's licensed appropriately for use in this page. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dennis_Sullivan_at_MSRI.jpg Gleuschk (talk) 14:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

UG theorem explanation

I added the quote regarding the theorem that inspired Dennis Sullivan to switch to Maths, but before I could add the complete explanation of the theorem the article got locked. So anyone with privileges please add the complete quote: The epiphany for me was watching the professor explaining that any surface topologically like a balloon, and no matter what shape - a banana or the statue of David by Michelangelo could be placed on to a perfectly round sphere so that the stretching or squeezing. required at each and every point is the same in all directions at each such point,” he said. Further the correspondence was unique once the location of three points was specified and these points could be specified arbitrarily… “This was general , deep and absolutely beautiful,” he recalls.

The part in bold may be included also-- Abdul Muhsy talk 14:17, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]