Talk:Raoul Bott
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Grammar
[edit]The phrase "an English governesses" is not good grammar.
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Bad writing
[edit]This sentence appears in the fourth paragraph of the section Career:
"Bott made important contributions towards the index theorem, especially in formulating related fixed-point theorems, in particular the so-called 'Woods Hole fixed-point theorem', a combination of the Riemann–Roch theorem and Lefschetz fixed-point theorem (it is named after Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the site of a conference at which collective discussion formulated it)."
This is the first and only mention of any "index theorem" in the article, so it is entirely inappropriate to refer to it as "the" index theorem; readers have no idea what you are talking about.
The next sentence reads as follows:
"The major Atiyah–Bott papers on what is now the Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem were written in the years up to 1968; they collaborated further in recovering in contemporary language Ivan Petrovsky on Petrovsky lacunas of hyperbolic partial differential equations, prompted by Lars Gårding."
The portion of this sentence following the semicolon is this:
"they collaborated further in recovering in contemporary language Ivan Petrovsky on Petrovsky lacunas of hyperbolic partial differential equations, prompted by Lars Gårding."
This makes no sense at all.2601:200:C000:1A0:BC4F:6F12:11E7:20E5 (talk) 17:30, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
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