Solomon Lefschetz Quote

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


A Page of Mathematical Autobiography, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 74, Number 5, 1968


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

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

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

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