"We probably all agree that eventually reducing a difficult problem to a "nice" situation is at the heart of mathematics."
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Beno Eckmann
Beno Eckmann (31 March 1917 – 25 November 2008) was a Swiss mathematician, known for his research in algebraic topology, homological algebra, group theory, and differential geometry. At the International Congress of Mathematicians he was an invited speaker in 1954 in Amsterdam and a plenary speaker in 1962 in Stockholm. He won the 2008 Albert Einstein Medal.
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