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The purpose of this brief introduction is to give a bird’s eye view of supersymmetry for a general mathematical audience. In particular it will include a brief outline of some of the themes that have emerged in recent (and not so recent) work in supersymmetry.

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Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Rita Fioresi, Marian Lledo, Alessio Marrani, and Jeff Rabin for reading earlier drafts of this article, correcting many errors, and suggesting major improvements.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1555, USA

    V. S. Varadarajan

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  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Bologna, Piazza Porta San Donato 5, Bologna, 40126, Italy

    Rita Fioresi

  3. Department of Mathematics, UCLA, 520 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, 90095, California, USA

    V.S. Varadarajan

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Varadarajan, V.S. (2011). Introduction. In: Ferrara, S., Fioresi, R., Varadarajan, V. (eds) Supersymmetry in Mathematics and Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2027. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21744-9_1

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