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I was trained as an algebraic geometer under Phillip A. Griffiths, but I have always had an abiding interest in topology, especially Raoul Bott’s kind of topology. In 1995 Raoul Bott gave a series of lectures at Brown University on equivariant cohomology. I was very much captivated by his presentation of the subject matter.
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Tu, L.W. (2017). Equivariant Characteristic Classes (Commentary on [116]). In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_14
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