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In fall ’69 I arrived in the Boston area driving across the country from Berkeley to take up a fellowship at MIT. A big attraction was to learn more about differential geometry mathematics from Raoul Bott. Right away Raoul tried to help me find an apartment in Cambridge.
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R. Bott and L. W. Tu, Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, revised 3rd printing, Springer, New York, 1995.
D. Sullivan, Geometric topology: localization, periodicity and Galois symmetry: the 1970 MIT notes, edited by A. Ranicki, Springer Netherlands, 2005.
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Sullivan, D. (2017). Memories of Raoul Bott. In: Tu, L. (eds) Raoul Bott: Collected Papers . Contemporary Mathematicians. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51781-0_6
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