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  1. Mathematics Department, Stanford University, 94305, Stanford, CA, USA

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This paper was made possible in part by grants from the National Science Foundation (DMS-8611574 and DMS-8553231) and from the Arco Corporation. It is based on an address delivered at the 90th Summer Meeting of the American Mathematical Society. The author would like to thank Rob Kusner for suggesting a number of improvements to the paper.

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White, B. Some recent developments in differential geometry. The Mathematical Intelligencer 11, 41–47 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025885

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