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Quotes from An Interview with Beno Eckmann — Beno Eckmann

1917–2008 Switzerland

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Together with many other people and after a long development I could prove that a Poincaré duality group of cohomological dimension 2 is the group of a Riemann surface. That was actually a conjecture of Jean-Pierre Serre. "You have to prove it!" he had always insisted.

An Interview with Beno Eckmann (2010)

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