This volume contains the proceedings of the summer school and research conference “Frontiers in Geometry and Topology”, celebrating the sixtieth birthday of

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A celebration of the state of mathematics at the end of the millennium. Produced under the auspices of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), the book was

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" . . . that famous pedagogical method whereby one begins with the general and proceeds to the particular only after the student is too confused to understand e