Publications of Lesser Known Milnors

Assembled by Adam Epstein, Tony Phillips and Dierk Schleicher

20 February 1997

Papers by the mathematician P.D.E. Milnor:

• On prime numbers homeomorphic to the 7-sphere. Ann. of Math. (2) 63 (1956).
• Self-reference and hairiness in Mandelbrot. In: ``Computers in geometry and topology'', Marcel Dekker (1989).
• A unique decomposition theorem for connected 0-manifolds. Amer. J. Math 84 (1962).
• Nanobundles and the structure of Dwarf algebras, Part II. Topology 3 (1964) Suppl. 1.
• On the total curvature of a duality theorem for the parallelizability of differentiable structures on the Betti numbers of polylogarithms of symmetric inner products in some experimental n-person directional entropies of left-invariant metrics on iterated maps of a knot in characteristic 2. To be published.

Papers by O.D.E. Milnor, who wrote on current affairs, cooking and household appliances:

• Whitewater torsion. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.  (N.S.) 72 (1966).
• Local connectivity of Julia Child: expository lectures. Preprint, IMS (1992).
• Regularity and fibre homotopy content. Pacific J. Math. 10 (1960).
• Some consequences of a theorem on Bottulism. Ann. of Math. (2) 68 (1958).
• Non-expensive neon lamps. Adv. in Math. 69 (1988).
• Remarks concerning spin cycles. In: ``Differential and combinatorial topology'', Princeton University Press (1965).

Papers by the psychologist Q.E.D. Milnor:

• Psychology from a very different viewpoint. University Press of Virginia (1965).
• Groups which act out in circles pointlessly. Amer. J. Math. 79 (1957).
• Dilbert's problem 18: on administrative groups, fundamental dumbness, and on office packing. In: ``Mathematical developments arising from Dilbert problems.'' Amer. Mat. Soc. (1976).
• The geometric realization of a Freudian complex. Ann of Math. (2) 65 (1957).
• Most nuts are wild. Fund. Math. 54 (1964).

Papers by G.D.Y.P. (``Giddyap'') Milnor, who wrote on farm life:

• The hot-rod algebra and its dual. Ann. of Math. (2) 67 (1958).
• A Nobel Prize for your 1955 Nash. Math. Intell. (1996).
• The characteristics of a wheat field on the ecosphere. Ann. of Math. (2) 58 (1953).
• On the concept of a tractor. Comm. Math. Phys. 99 (1985).
• Saddle point up and Reidemeister away! Ann. of Math. (2) 76 (1962).
• Horse Theory. Princeton University Press (1963).