Subject: Re: 2 more on lim-1
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:06:59 +0200
From: Gerd Laures <gerd@laures.de>
To: Don Davis <dmd1@lehigh.edu>

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, you wrote:
> Two more responses on the lim-1 question.......DMD
> ________________________________

> Milnor's 1961 paper deals with Steenrod's theory, and he produces a
> short
> exact sequence to compute H_*(inverse limit of X_i$ where the X_i are
> finite complexes and X = inverse limit X_i is a compact metric space.
> This of course involves lim and lim^1.
> (For some years Jerry  and I had the only copies of this paper and
> were the "publishers", so to speak.)  There is no mention of the 6 term
> sequence there.
>

This is not quite correct: in the mentioned reprinted version of Milnor's paper
from 1961 he is writing down the 6 term sequence on page 87 and does not
give any reference to anybody else. So, maybe they both should get the credits.

Gerd Laures