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the discovery of smooth manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the standard sphere, first in dimension seven.

In topology, exotic spheres refers to the discovery of smooth manifolds homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to the standard sphere, first in dimension seven. This meaning comes from Milnor (1956) in The Annals of Mathematics.[1]

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Milnor, J. (1956). On Manifolds Homeomorphic to the 7-Sphere. The Annals of Mathematics, 64(2), 399. https://doi.org/10.2307/1969983

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