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"It was my lot to plant the harpoon of algebraic topology into the body of the whale of algebraic geometry."

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"Solomon Lefschetz had a reputation for “kibitzing” during the lectures of colleagues; at perhaps the first public tal…"

"I would read Lefschetz's book on analysis situs and algebraic geometry - the book about which Hodge used to say that …"

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